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Eugenie Carol Scott (born October 24, 1945) is an American physical anthropologist who has been active in opposing the teaching of young Earth creationism and intelligent design in schools. She coined the term " Gish gallop " to describe a fallacious rhetorical technique of overwhelming an interlocutor with as many individually weak arguments ...
Eugenie Scott, anthropologist. Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), critic of creationism and intelligent design. [57] Robert Sheaffer, author. UFO investigator, columnist for the Skeptical Inquirer. [58] Michael Shermer, historian, popular science author, founder of the Skeptics Society.
Eugenie C. Scott and other critics regard neo-creationism as the most successful form of irrationalism. [3] The main form of neo-creationism is intelligent design . [ 6 ] A second form, abrupt appearance theory, [ 3 ] which claims that the first life and the universe appeared abruptly and that plants and animals appeared abruptly in complex ...
Eugenie Scott called the group an example of "extreme Biblical-literalist theology: The earth is flat because the Bible says it is flat, regardless of what science tells us". [ 44 ] According to some flat Earthers, the Flat Earth Society is a government-controlled organization whose true purpose is to make ridiculous claims about flat Earth and ...
Others see "evolutionary creation" [18] (EC, also referred to by some observers as "evolutionary creationism") as the belief that God, as Creator, uses evolution to bring about his plan. Eugenie Scott states in Evolution Vs. Creationism that it is a type of evolution rather than creationism, despite its name. "From a scientific point of view ...
According to Eugenie Scott, Director of the US National Center for Science Education, "In one form or another, Theistic Evolutionism is the view of creation taught at the majority of mainline Protestant seminaries, and it is the official position of the Catholic church". [3]
The book initially received more attention from popular media than from the scientific community, although soon after the book was released Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education responded to it, saying "scientific creationists" like Johnson "confuse the general public, by mixing up the controversy among scientists about how ...
Stephen Charles Meyer (/ ˈ m aɪ. ər /; born 1958) is an American historian, author, and former educator.He is an advocate of intelligent design, a pseudoscientific creationist argument for the existence of God.