All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back…

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.

— William Jennings Bryan

“If America suffers from drugs, perhaps you should ask what America is lacking, [“What an asshole,”] Eric King commented suddenly. They ignored him.”

— Bruce Sterling

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

— Irving Babbitt

“America suffers from its present predicament because a large group of small-minded people chose the leaders and actions that led to our present degraded…

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

Memory in America suffers amnesia.

— Meridel Le Sueur

Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by…

— Tom DeLay

Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was…

— Richard Dawkins

“Educators may bring upon themselves unnecessary travail by taking a tactless and unjustifiable position about the relation between scientific and religious narratives. We see…

— Neil Postman

People who believe in creationism say that by teaching evolution you are indoctrinating them with science, but I just don't agree with that.

— Alice Roberts

One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is probably right…

— Huston Smith

The opposition to teaching evolution is, of course, almost always given a religious reason. That may usually be its real basis, but I think…

— George Gaylord Simpson

You know, our fundamentalist friends dislike the teaching of evolution in schools because of the effect they feel it has on our view of…

— Steven Weinberg

Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious beliefs from…

— Steven Weinberg

As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout the world,…

— Katha Pollitt