3 Quotes & Sayings By Robert T Pennock

Robert T. Pennock is the founder and director of the Center for the Study of Science and Creationism (CSSC) at Michigan State University. He received his B.S. in biology from Michigan State University and his Ph.D Read more

in zoology from the University of California, Riverside. Pennock previously served on the faculty of the Department of Biology and the Center for Integrative and Comparative Biology, and on the faculty of the Department of Biology at Loma Linda University. He currently serves as an affiliate professor in the Department of Biology at Indiana Wesleyan University, where he teaches evolution and science education, and as a senior research scientist in molecular genetics at Indiana University School of Medicine-Bloomington.

From 1997 to 2000, Pennock was a member of the board of directors of the Discovery Institute which promotes intelligent design creationism as a viable alternative to evolution in public schools. In this capacity, he helped draft a statement on evolution being taught in public schools that was given to President George W. Bush by a committee led by William A.

Dembski that recommended that creationism be taught alongside evolution in public schools. Pennock has been a consultant to both Congress and numerous state legislatures on issues pertaining to evolution education, including helping to draft legislation supporting intelligent design as an alternative to evolutionary biology in public school science curricula as well as legislation requiring public school districts receiving federal funds for science education to teach both evolution and intelligent design as alternatives to evolutionary theory

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Intelligent design theorists have learned a few lessons from the failures of their predecessors and have devised a more sophisticated strategy to compete head on with evolution. One of the main things they [intelligent design creationists] have learned is what not to say. A major element of their strategy is to advance a form of creation that not only omits any explicit mention of Genesis but is also usually vague, if not mute, about any of the specific claims about the nature of Creation, the separate ancestry of humans and apes, the explanation of the earth's geology by catastrophic global flood, or the age of the earth - items that readily identified young-earth creationism as a thinly disguised biblical literalism. Robert T. Pennock
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Methodological naturalism is a “ground rule” of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we can observe, test, replicate, and verify Robert T. Pennock