‘But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this—we can perceive that events are brought about not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular case, but by the establishment of general laws.’ W. Whewell: Bridgewater Treatise.
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“A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and
balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each
question.â€
— Charles Darwin,
Introduction to Origin of Species (1859)
“Teachers and students should have the academic freedom
to discuss both the strengths and weaknesses of evolution as a
scientific theory.â€
— 84% of college graduates agree
(2009 Zogby International survey of likely voters)
“Education, you know, means broadening, advancing,
and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything the
whole country will eventually have only one thought, be one
individual. I believe in teaching every aspect of every problem
or theory.â€
— John T. Scopes (1925, at a banquet in NY
prior to the “Scopes Monkey Trialâ€)
“As we know, there is a great divergence of opinion among
biologists … because the evidence is unsatisfactory and does
not permit any certain conclusion. It is therefore right and
proper to draw the attention of the non-scientific public to
the disagreements about evolution. But some recent remarks
of evolutionists show that they think this unreasonable.
This situation, where scientific men rally to the defense of
a doctrine they are unable to define scientifically, much less
demonstrate with scientific rigor, attempting to maintain its
credit with the public by the suppression of cri