# Quote — Eugenie Scott, Not in Our Classrooms

> In the creationist concept of created kind—and the creationist demand to “Show me macroevolution”—we have a classic example of the movable-goalposts strategy for winning. Any amount of evolution that can be demonstrated to the creationists’ satisfaction is effectively by definition microevolution within a kind. No matter how extensive the documented change is, the macroevolution goalposts are always out of reach. The inviolable biblical kind is protected with strategic vagueness.

- Author: [Eugenie Scott](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eugenie-scott.md)
- Book: [Not in Our Classrooms](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eugenie-scott/not-in-our-classrooms.md)
- Page: 51
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eugenie_Scott#Not_in_Our_Classrooms:_Why_Intelligent_Design_Is_Wrong_for_Our_Schools_(2006)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/eugenie-scott/not-in-our-classrooms/in-the-creationist

## More from this book

> Creation science argues that there are only two views, special creationism and evolution; thus, arguments against evolution are arguments in favor of creationism. Literature supporting creation science is based on alleged examples of evidence against evolution, which are considered not only proof against evolution but also positive evidence for creationism. Understandably, there is nothing in the creation science canon providing a positive scientific case for the sudden emergence of the universe in its present form at one time, let alone for its specific doctrines a six-thousand-year-old Earth and universe, the occurrence of a worldwide flood responsible for the fossil record and geological features such as the Grand Canyon, and the impossibility of evolution except within sharp limits.

p. 7 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eugenie-scott/not-in-our-classrooms/creation-science-argues.md)

> By now it should be clear that “teaching the controversy” is not about the concern for good pedagogy but about advancing the antievolution agenda.

p. 109 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eugenie-scott/not-in-our-classrooms/by-now-it-should.md)

> ID, like creation science, has goals that are primarily religious.

p. 24 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eugenie-scott/not-in-our-classrooms/id-like-creation.md)