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December 14, 2007|Volume 36, Number 13|Four-Week Issue


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Eugenie Scott



Social anthropologist will examine
‘Why Creationism Isn’t Science’

Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), will visit the campus Sunday and Monday, Dec. 16 and 17, to give two talks.

Scott will examine “Why Creationism Isn’t Science” at 2 p.m. on Sunday at the Yale Peabody Museum, 170 Whitney Ave. A reception will follow. On Monday at 4 p.m., she will discuss “Who Teaches the Teachers?” in the Osborne Memorial Laboratory, 165 Prospect St. Both talks are free and open to the public.

Scott will address the topic of creation science, and its newest iteration, intelligent design, as it impacts the teaching of evolution.

A physical anthropologist, Scott is widely considered to be a leading expert on creationism (including intelligent design), as well as one of its strongest opponents.

In 1980 Scott was at the forefront of a successful attempt to prevent creationism from being taught in the public schools of Lexington, Kentucky. From this grassroot effort, NCSE — a not-for-profit membership organization that works to improve the teaching of evolution, and of science as a way of knowing — was formed in 1981. Its members oppose the advocacy of “scientific” creationism, intelligent design and other religiously based views in science classes. Scott was appointed the NCSE’s executive director in 1987, the year in which teaching creation science in American public schools was deemed illegal by the Supreme Court. Her book “Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction” was published in 2004.


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