Three of intelligent design’s most damaging constitutional … - Eugenie Scott

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Three of intelligent design’s most damaging constitutional problems: its singling out of evolution education for reform, its explicitly religious background, and it status as unsuccessful science.

Eugenie Scott

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Eugenie Scott (born October 24, 1945) is an American physical anthropologist who has been active in opposing the teaching of young Earth creationism and intelligent design in schools. From 1986 to 2014 Scott served as the Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education.

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Alternative Names: Genie Scott • Eugenie Carol Scott

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By now it should be clear that “teaching the controversy” is not about the concern for good pedagogy but about advancing the antievolution agenda.

The objections to evolution are not serious scientific arguments; they are superficially investigated and poorly reasoned talking points.

The first problem with this argument (“teach the controversy”) is that there is no scientific controversy about evolution, and the second problem is that intelligent design doesn’t qualify as a scientific theory.

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