Eugenie Scott
Eugenie Scott
Eugenie Carol Scottis an American physical anthropologist, a former university professor and one of the strongest voices challenging the teaching of young earth creationism and intelligent design in schools. From 1987 to 2013, Scott served as the Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, Inc., a pro-evolution nonprofit science education organization with members in every state. She holds a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from the University of Missouri. A human biologist, her research has been in medical anthropology...
religious school ideas
Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises.
art knowing atheism
Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways human beings understand the universe - through literature, theology, aesthetics, art or music.
religion atheism evolution
You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.
school exercise thinking
In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse students about evolution and may lead them to reject one of the major themes in science.
religious believe love-you
People don't show up here (at the courtroom) because they believe evolution is bad science. They show up because they believe that if they accept evolution, then they are abandoning their religious beliefs. They see it as an either/or proposition: Either evolution happened, or God loves you.
definitely gears parents sand throw win
If the parents win the upcoming case, it will definitely throw sand in the gears of the 'intelligent design' movement.
community faith needs step
The faith community needs to step up to the plate.
dead design difficult district future legal mean popular school social strategy survive
As a legal strategy intelligent design is dead. It will be very difficult for any school district in the future to successfully survive a legal challenge. That doesn't mean intelligent design is dead as a very popular social movement. This is an idea that has got legs.
effort goes ignore information less means presenting result science students teacher teachers
Essentially what goes on in these seminars is an effort to tell students they should ignore or deprecate the information the teacher is presenting to them. As a result teachers may teach less evolution, which means we have less science literacy.
action fight happening likely next predict several
This action is likely to be the playbook for creationism for the next several years, ... We can predict this fight happening elsewhere.
god itself key natural people saying science therefore understanding
This is actually, I think, key to understanding this whole controversy in this country: people think that because science restricts itself to a natural cause, it's therefore saying that God had nothing to do with it.
fairness positively react
Americans react very positively to the fairness or equal-time kind of argument.
decision major science victory
This decision is a major victory for science, and a major victory for science education.
discussion impression line public side toxic
The most toxic thing about this whole discussion is the impression that most of the public has, that there's a line in the sand, and you have to be on one side or the other.