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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 ...
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]
In addition, the film includes interviews with scientists and others who advocate the teaching of evolution and criticize intelligent design as an attempt to bring religion into the science classroom. Those interviewed include PZ Myers, William B. Provine, Richard Dawkins, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, Christopher Hitchens, and Eugenie Scott.
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 ...
This grew into volunteer networks in most states, with the Creation/Evolution Newsletter interconnecting them, [6] which was incorporated as the NCSE in 1983. [7] In 1987, author and lecturer Eugenie Scott became its executive director. [8] The Board of Directors and official supporters, as explained by NCSE, "reflects our scientific roots."
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 ...
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 ...