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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 ...
"Winning the Creation Debate". Reports. 24 (6). National Center for Science Education: 36– 38. Scott, Eugenie (2004). Confronting Creationism. Reports of National Center for Science Education. Vol. 24/6. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018; Scott, Eugenie (1994). "Debates and the Globetrotters". Talk Origins Archive
The neo-creationist movement is motivated by the fear that religion is under attack by the study of evolution. [9] [10] [11] An argument common to neo-creationist justifications is that society has suffered "devastating cultural consequences" [12] [13] [14] from adopting materialism and that science is the cause of this decay into materialism since science seeks only natural explanations.
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.
In 2006 Glenn Branch co-edited the book "Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design is Wrong for Our Schools" with Eugenie Carol Scott Branch, Glenn; Scott, Eugenie C. (2009). "The Latest Face of Creationism".
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.
There is a "special creation" of each separate kind in six 24-hour days, starting a few thousand years ago. [5] In The Mystery of Life's Origin, Charles B. Thaxton argues for "Special Creation by a Creator beyond the Cosmos", and asserts that special creation holds "that the source that produced life was intelligent". [6] [need quotation to verify]