[Opponents of ID believe that what happened in Kansas will be repeated elsewhere.] This action is likely to be the play-book for creationism for the next several years, ... We can predict this fight happening elsewhere. |
Americans react very positively to the fairness or equal-time kind of argument. |
As a legal strategy intelligent design is dead. It will be very difficult for any school district in the future to successfully survive a legal challenge. That doesn't mean intelligent design is dead as a very popular social movement. This is an idea that has got legs. |
But no one is using irreducible complexity as a research strategy, and with very good reason ... because it's completely fruitless. |
Essentially what goes on in these seminars is an effort to tell students they should ignore or deprecate the information the teacher is presenting to them. As a result teachers may teach less evolution, which means we have less science literacy. |
Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized. |
Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them. |
I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, because theories explain things. |
I think we should pay attention to him. We ignore public understanding of science at our peril. |
If the parents win the upcoming case, it will definitely throw sand in the gears of the 'intelligent design' movement. |
Intelligent design is ultimately a science stopper. |
It is already clear that the new slogan for the ID movement is going to be 'Teach the Controversy!' -- even though there is no scientific controversy over the validity of evolution in biology. |
It's going on right now. |
Lawsuits, from my standpoint, are a sign of failure. We're hoping the lessons of Dover can be communicated throughout the rest of the country. |
People don't show up here (at the courtroom) because they believe evolution is bad science. They show up because they believe that if they accept evolution, then they are abandoning their religious beliefs. They see it as an either/or proposition: Either evolution happened, or God loves you. |