Dennett on quarantining

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Contents 1 Misquoted Person 2 Source 3 Original Source 4 Misquote 5 Original Quote 6 External Links

Misquoted Person

Daniel C. Dennett

Source

• Dembski, W., 1999. Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology, InterVarsity Press, p. 289.
• Dembski, W., 2000. Disbelieving Darwin--And Feeling No Shame! [1]
• Dembski, W., Shamelessly Doubting Darwin [2]
• Dembski, W., n.d. Introduction: The Myths of Darwinism., in Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing [3] (PDF)
• Jones, Stephen E., n.d. Problems of Evolution [4]

Original Source

• Dennett, Daniel C., 1995. Darwin's Dangerous Idea, New York, Simon & Schuster, p. 519.

Misquote

• "Dennett even suggests "quarantining" those who teach their children that evolution by natural selection is false." (Dembski, Intelligent Design)

• "Daniel Dennett even recommends “quarantining” parents who teach their children to doubt Darwinism" (Dembski, Disbelieving Darwin/Shamelessly Doubting)

• "Such enthusiasm for Darwinism might be endearing except that its proponents are deadly earnest. For instance, in Darwin’s Dangerous Idea Daniel Dennett views religious believers who dissuade their children from believing Darwinian evolution as such a threat to the social order that they need to be caged in zoos or quarantined (both metaphors are his)." (Dembski, Myths of Darwinism)

• "Likewise, another evolutionist zealot Daniel Dennett has publicly advocated placing in a "zoo cage" as a "quarantine" measure, those who "insist on teaching" what Dennett considers "falsehoods," for example "that `Man' is not a product of evolution by natural selection"" (Jones; this is a mixture with Dennett on caging)

Original Quote

• "Those whose visions dictate that they cannot peacefully coexist with the rest of us we will have to quarantine as best we can."

A few lines later:

• "If you insist on teaching your children falsehoods--that the Earth is flat, that "Man" is not a product of evolution by natural selection--then you must expect, at the very least, that those of us who have freedom of speech will feel free to describe your teachings as the spreading of falsehoods, and will attempt to demonstrate this to your children at our earliest opportunity. Our future well-being--the well-being of all of us on the planet--depends on the education of our descendants."

External Links

• Non-retraction by Dembski [5]
• Shallit, Jeffrey, Desperately Evading the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design: A Review of Dembski's The Design Revolution Talk Reason [6]