Religious Politics and Secular Values - Part 4 Ron Lindsay

The Creationists' Evolving Legal Strategy

Ronald Lindsay is president and CEO of the Center for Inquiry. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Georgetown University and his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. He has been described both as a lawyer masquerading as a philosopher and as a philosopher pretending to be a lawyer. Both statements may be true. One undisputed fact: He is the author of Future Bioethics: Overcoming Taboos, Myths, and Dogmas

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There's nothing wrong with telling students that evolution is just a theory, because the theory of evolution IS just a theory! What's *not* a theory is the concept of species-change--that is, the *fact* that animals have changed throughout history. However, evolution is just one of quite a few theories (not including creationism, which isn't a theory but instead a fairy-tale), and so I have no problem with these teachers qualifying it since evolution hasn't be proved as *the* correct theory.