This week's quotation comes from Pennsylvania State University paleontologist Kenneth Weiss, who frequently writes literate essays on current issues for the journal Evolutionary Anthropology. In this quote, he offers a wise course of action with regard to engaging in debate with creationists.
Our understanding of evolution is dynamic, approximate, and always changing. Even in a culture war, we should be on guard to keep it that way. We should not allow ourselves to respond in kind by being bullied into insisting on a too neatly packaged or simplistic, much less dogmatic view, even though expressing uncertainties about our knowledge provides food for our opponents. If our science is to remain healthy, we should always be putting ourselves on trial.
- Kenneth Weiss on Defining Evolution, with the source of the quote
- More Quotes from Anthropologists
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