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Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education had visited UCF earlier this month to talk<\/a> about evolution and the attempts to undermine evolution teaching in the public schools. Now a student group on the campus hosted their own event “Questions for Evolution<\/a>.” Unfortunately, it’s hard to judge how this young earth creationism event fared as the linked article doesn’t mention how many people attended, and the writer didn’t do anything more than cursory reporting. The only thing we can glean from this article is the obvious fact that opposition to evolution is based on religion and not science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education had visited UCF earlier this month to talk about evolution and the attempts to undermine evolution teaching in the public schools. 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