Alan Leshner Quotations

Just because they call it a theory doesn't make it a scientific theory. The concept of an intelligent designer is not a scientifically testable assertion.

Just because they call it a theory doesn't make it a scientific theory, ... The concept of an intelligent designer is not a scientifically testable assertion.

We know way too little about all those variables.

We are not rolling over on this. It's too important to the nation and to the nation's children.

We're collectively mounting this effort in order to try and fend off what could become another public health crisis in this country.

Evolution is far more than a belief or an educated guess about how people came to be as they are. It is, in fact, the product of converging evidence from many, many different fields of science. Many, many thousands of studies that, in fact, have provided a theory, an organizing principal in fact, that describes how humans came to be.

Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds.

There is no such thing as recreational drug use.

We could very easily lose the fragile lead we now have if we don't make the critical investments right now. Everyone else is doing it.

They're trying to cut in line and not go through the normal steps to merit wearing the cloak of science. They just want to take on the cloak of science because they like the credibility that comes with it.

It's what Ecstasy does to serotonin levels that concerns us most right now,

Intelligent design is simply the most recent version of creationism, which is admittedly a religious concept. There is no scientific basis to intelligent design.

The Dover disclaimer brings religion straight into the science classroom,