Biology Quote by Eugenie Scott

Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved…

— Carl Zimmer

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'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

“For those scientists who take it seriously, Darwinian evolution has functioned more as a philosophical belief system than as a testable scientific hypothesis. This…

— James A. Shapiro

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

— Kenneth R. Miller

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

But I think schools also ought to be fair to all views. Because, frankly, Darwinism is not an established scientific fact. It is a…

— Mike Huckabee

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

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

— Richard Dawkins

The more evolutionary theory gets called an atheistic theory, the greater the risk that it will lose its place in public school biology courses…

— Elliott Sober

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