Edward Larson

Quotes

1. Behe has never developed his arguments for intelligent design in peer-reviewed scientific publications. Indeed, he doesn’t actually conduct research in the field and, along with other leaders of the intelligent-design movement, concedes that there is not as yet much affirmative scientific evidence supporting the concept of intelligent design.

   p. 272

2. 

   “The inexorable growth of [biology] continues to widen, not to close the tectonic gap between science and faith-based religion.”

   p. 274

3. 

   Ginger titled a concluding chapter, “To the Losers Belong the Spoils,” and drew the lesson from Bryan’s “fatal error of tactics: if a person holds irrational ideas and insists that others should accept them because of their authoritative source, he should never agree to be questioned about them.”

   p. 235

4. 

   Darrow’s opening introduced his main point. The antievolution statute was illegal because it established a particular religious viewpoint in the public schools.

   p. 163

5. 

   Already, the three main tactics for attacking the antievolution measure had emerged: the defense of individual freedom, an appeal to scientific authority, and a mocking ridicule of fundamentalists and biblical literalism; later, they became the three prongs of the Scopes defense.

   p. 52

6. 

   “We have to live in the universe science gives us. A theology that is contrary to reality must be abandoned or improved.”

   p. 118

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