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.
"Eugenie Carol Scott" is an American physical anthropology/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 and skeletal biology. Scott is nationally recognized as a proponent of church/state separation and serves on the National Advisory Council of Americans United for Separation of Church and State and other organizations. She has worked nation-wide to communicate the scientific method to the general public and to improve how science as a way of knowing is taught in school.
More Eugenie Scott on Wikipedia.Intelligent design is ultimately a science stopper.
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.
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.
This decision is a major victory for science, and a major victory for science education.
Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.
I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, because theories explain things.
But no one is using irreducible complexity as a research strategy, and with very good reason ... because it's completely fruitless.
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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