Biology Quote by Carl Zimmer

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

— Eugenie Scott

The battle over the validity of evolution has been publicly posed as a scientific one. However, you will find little sign of it in…

— Victor J. Stenger

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…

— Eugenie Scott

The public debate about evolution itself, as opposed to whether to teach it, is something else. It is boring, demeaning, and insufferably dull.

— Ian Hacking

There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does.

— Richard Dawkins

The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch…

— Daniel Dennett

What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution.…

— Rick Santorum

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

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…

— Eugenie Scott

There's been an incredible censorship in America and throughout the world, but particularly in America where students aren't even allowed to critically think about…

— Ken Ham

Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory

— Kenneth R. Miller