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.

- Eugenie Scott

You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand…

- Eugenie Scott

Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims un…

- Eugenie Scott

Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways human beings understand the univer…

- Eugenie Scott

I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.

- Eugenie Scott

I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, 'We shouldn't be teaching creat…

- Eugenie Scott

In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to con…

- Eugenie Scott

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

- Eugenie Scott

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 evo…

- Eugenie Scott