“If an intelligent designer used his skill, cunning and craft to make all these things, the fact that most of them go extinct is an embarrassment. Why have they all gone extinct if he is so intelligent?”
Biologist Kenneth Miller, Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island
“It [the teaching of ID in schools] would turn us back to an earlier era, a pre-Enlightenment era. That would be a really radical change.”
Advertisement
Philosopher of science Robert Pennock, Michigan State University, East Lansing
“There really is no controversy between evolutionary biology and ID because ID simply is not a scientific idea.”
Theologian John Haught, Harvard University
“I reserve the right to teach my child about religion. I have faith in myself and in my husband and in my pastor to do that, not the school system.”
Parent and English teacher Christy Rehm, one of the plaintiffs
“When we perceive that parts have been purposely arranged, we infer design.”
Biochemist Michael Behe, Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
“There is nothing especially unscientific about aiming to change the ground rules of science.”
Sociologist Steve Fuller, University of Warwick, UK
“Do we have the academic freedom to teach our children other people’s views?”
Ed Rowand, Dover school board member
“Making students aware of the controversy in the science community is good for students and it is good for science.”
Microbiologist Scott Minnich, University of Idaho, Moscow
“The repeated assertion that the theory [evolution] is one of the most robust in science is more dogmatism than science.”
Scott Minnich
