"Evolution? Creation? Both? Neither?"

Genie Scott at Plymouth Congregational Church in Lawrence, Kansas, delving into the creationism/evolution controversy, how evolution is misunderstood, what evolution really is, and more. Event date: 9/8/1999

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Education

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• NCSE
• Genie Scott
• evolution
• creationism
• Plymouth Church
• evolution vs. creationism

[chachee99]

There is no debate amoungst the scientific community. The debate is between educated and the uneducated.

[LowleyUK]

what a ridiculous title! evolution is a fact. anyone that disagrees is ignorance defined.

[OutOfTheBoxThinker]

Claiming there's a consensus on "the Holocaust" is ignorant as prominent historians such as A. J. P. Taylor and Harry Elmer Barnes have been critical on this or related issues rom the late '40s and early '50s onwards, but due to political and legal pressure their voices have been silenced and marginalised. In fact, even as a historian, questioning key elements became enough to get you fired or even to get sent to jail in various European countries, regardless of how scientific your arguments.

[warriorprince1010]

Creation is based on science, history, logic and morality. Evolutionism is based on hatred, lies, fraud , strawmanning and bullying.

[TheGreaterGood80]

There's a difference between seeking truth, and wanting something to be true. Science seeks truth, but the truth is what the evidence adds up to, not what we "want" it to be. The creationist already has their mind made up before they even begin to attempt research, how is that science? They want creationism to be right because it will validate their religious convictions. Sorry, that's not how science works. Leave religion and politics out of it and let it do its thing.

[pumpstations]

I'm curious why the creationist have such a problem with evolution. If everything is going to hell anyway. Watching creationism loose this fight is just sad. The only point I can give them is they have been creative manipulating their holy book, and what they accept it to mean along with actual science. Christians from a millennium ago would call most if not all Christians now heathens.

[Sexycosy]

who was the idiot that filmed this without zooming in on the screen to show the slides? AND why didn't NCSE add the slides in the video as they did to the Miller-Morris debate recorded in '81?... and by the way, Genie, u were fabulous as always :-)

[1PintLasher]

@chachee99 well said

[1PintLasher]

@antonc81 haha yup, it's mental. It's like neverneverland over there apparently... nobody has to ever grow up! at least intellectually

[antonc81]

Most of the developed world finds it hilarious that this debate is still going on in the US.

[icemanguitar]

laid it down pretty well...

[Richy15251]

@Gripen1974 that's called panspermia, though it's not a scientific theory, its a hypothesis with nothing really to back it up. Richard Dawkins semi-endorsed it as a kind of concession. He said that it would be possible for life to be seeded here by an alien species, but of course that species would have had to have evolved by Darwinian natural selection.