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...
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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.
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The stakes are high. If Kansas gets away with it ... I anticipate that in every state where science standards are up for revision, we are going to be fighting another battle.
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But no one is using irreducible complexity as a research strategy, and with very good reason ... because it's completely fruitless.
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It is already clear that the new slogan for the ID movement is going to be 'Teach the Controversy!' -- even though there is no scientific controversy over the validity of evolution in biology.
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This would, of course, not open up science but destroy it.
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Americans react very positively to the fairness or equal-time kind of argument.
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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.
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This decision is a major victory for science, and a major victory for science education.
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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.
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This action is likely to be the playbook for creationism for the next several years, ... We can predict this fight happening elsewhere.
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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.
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I think we should pay attention to him. We ignore public understanding of science at our peril.
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Lawsuits, from my standpoint, are a sign of failure. We're hoping the lessons of Dover can be communicated throughout the rest of the country.
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When they say 'teach the controversy' their ringing phrase they want us to pretend to students that scientists are arguing whether evolution took place. This argument is not taking place.