Eugenie Scott Quotes

• 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.

  Eugenie Scott

  Religious, Love You, Believe

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• 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.

  Eugenie Scott

  School, Exercise, Thinking

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• 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.

  Eugenie Scott

  Religion, Atheism, Evolution

  "PROFILE / EUGENIE SCOTT / Berkeley scientist leads fight to stop teaching of creationism" by Monica Lam, www.sfgate.com. February 7, 2003.

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• I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, because theories explain things.

  Eugenie Scott

  Important, Facts, Evolution

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• 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.

  Eugenie Scott

  Religious, School, Ideas

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• 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.

  Eugenie Scott

  Students, Evolution, Biology

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• Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.

  Eugenie Scott

  Fields, Spheres, Evolution

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• 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.

  Eugenie Scott

  Art, Knowing, Atheism

  "PROFILE / EUGENIE SCOTT / Berkeley scientist leads fight to stop teaching of creationism" by Monica Lam, www.sfgate.com. February 7, 2003.

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• I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.

  Eugenie Scott

  Thinking, Data, Atheism

  "PROFILE / EUGENIE SCOTT / Berkeley scientist leads fight to stop teaching of creationism" by Monica Lam, www.sfgate.com. February 7, 2003.

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• There's a bait and switch going on here because the critics want the textbooks to question whether evolution occurred. And of course they don't because scientists don't question whether evolution occurred.

  Eugenie Scott

  Atheism, Bait, Textbooks

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• Public schools are where the next generation of leaders are educated and where cultural exchange will take place.

  Eugenie Scott

  School, Leader, Atheism

  "PROFILE / EUGENIE SCOTT / Berkeley scientist leads fight to stop teaching of creationism" by Monica Lam, www.sfgate.com. February 7, 2003.

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• I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, 'We shouldn't be teaching creationism.' Being right doesn't mean it'll pass.

  Eugenie Scott

  Teaching, Mean, School

  "PROFILE / EUGENIE SCOTT / Berkeley scientist leads fight to stop teaching of creationism" by Monica Lam, www.sfgate.com. February 7, 2003.

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