John West Quotes (26 Quotes)

When you're running a rescue, you need to make sure the horse is going somewhere where it's not going to end up at another auction or dead due to neglect, ... From what I've seen, Bill's only screening procedure is 'Did the check clear'

It was misconceived. It was almost all about Biblical creationism, not intelligent design, and it also seemed lopsided.

The Dover decision is an attempt by an activist federal judge to stop the spread of a scientific idea and even to prevent criticism of Darwinian evolution through government-imposed censorship rather than open debate, and it won't work.

Everything is working well, ... They are so appreciative. They thank us all the time.

We start six sophomores. This is the best team we've ever had. This is the highest we've finished. We're an up-and-coming program, and we're trying to take a step at a time.

We don't say God designed. It's not about trying to reconcile science with some religious text. It's about this longstanding question in biology and the appearance of design.

Chance and necessity don't seem to be good candidates for explaining the appearance of higher-order complexity, so the best explanation is an intelligent cause.

Unfortunately, they test to see if you are edible, but they can only use their teeth or nose and in doing so they do a lot of damage to soft, squishy humans.

We took these people in and then I started wondering how we could feed nine people if they stay long. Then I thought to myself, 'I'll figure out how to feed them later.'

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Judge Jones got on his soapbox to offer his own views of science, religion and evolution. He makes it clear that he wants his place in history as the judge who issued a definitive decision about intelligent design. This is an activist judge who has delusions of grandeur.

Americans don't like to be told there is some idea that they aren't permitted to learn about.

It's Scopes in reverse. They're going to get a gag order to be placed on teachers across the country.

Anyone who thinks a court ruling is going to kill off interest in intelligent design is living in another world.

This is clearly an effort to censor the discussion of scientific criticism of Darwinian theory by intimidation and threat,

The only thing we knew coming into the game was (Cole) mixed her pitches well. She certainly does that, and that doesn't define it enough. She keeps you off-balance. She's very tough to get back-to-back hits on. She affected all of us, top to bottom.

If it's unconstitutional to tell students to study evolution with an open mind, then what's not unconstitutional The judge is basically trying to make it unconstitutional for anyone to have a divergent view, and we think that has a chilling effect on free speech.

They found pretty serious sloppiness on the part of the judge and on the part of the ACLU. Finally, we have a group of federal judges who are being properly skeptical of what we regard as overreaching claims.

Censorship and thought-control are apparently alive and well at the University of Idaho, ... This is an assault on academic freedom, and a barefaced violation of the Constitution's guarantee of free speech.

I don't understand how you can have a discussion of intelligent design if you only invite critics. That sounds like a monologue, not a discussion. I thought this was supposed to be science, not a pep rally.

The empirical evidence for design, the facts of biology and nature, can't be changed by legal decree.

We're not heartbroken about the policy being struck down. We do have concerns about the judge getting on his soapbox ... and trying to stifle debate by court order.

It's a disturbing prospect that the outcome of this lawsuit could be that the court will try to tell scientists what is legitimate scientific inquiry and what is not, ... That is a flagrant assault on free speech.

Critics would rather tar everyone with the brush of creationism. I think the idea that Genesis provides scientific text is really farfetched.

We have definitely turned the corner and as a sport we are excited by the challenges ahead,

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