Author: Eugenie C. Scott
Eugenie C. Scott is executive director of the National Center for Science Education, author of Evolution vs. Creationism (University of California Press, 2009), and coauthor (with Glenn Branch) of Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design Is Wrong for Our Schools (Beacon Press, 2006).
The Need for Accommodation
Five years ago, I was in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, at the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial. The trial concerned the legality of a policy of teaching intelligent design (ID) in Dover, Pennsylvania, public schools. The National Center for Science Education (NCSE), my organization, acted as advisor to the plaintiff’s legal team on scientific, pedagogical, and religious issues …
Creationism du Jour The ‘evidence against evolution’
In the beginning . . . there was straight-up creationism. Six twenty-four-hour days of special creation by God of everything as we see it today& mdash;galaxies, solar systems, the Earth, plants and animals on Earth, and of course, human beings, created in God’s image. Advocates of creationism lobbied to ban evolution from the classroom and …