NCSE Events

Creationism In and Outside the U.S.

Featuring: 
Eugenie C. Scott, Ph.D.
Eugenie C. Scott
Time: 
9:00am
Date: 
May 18, 2012
Location: 
6th World Skeptics Congress
Hotel Crowne Plaza
Berlin City Center
Germany


Creationism usually is considered an American (or North American) controversy, but it is spreading internationally, as conservative Christian missionaries use creationist literature in their missionary activities. Its spread, as one might expect, is also influenced by idiosyncrasies of culture, politics and national pride.

2012 World Skeptic Congress
Sponsored by
the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry,
the Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften (GWUP,
and The European Council of Skeptical Organisations (ECSO)

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Why the Term "Academic Freedom" is a Fraud: It Is a Disguise For Creationism

Featuring: 
Barbara Forrest, Ph.D.
Barbara Forrest: Barbara Forrest
Time: 
2:30pm
Date: 
May 19, 2012
Location: 
Fe Bland Auditorium
Santa Barbara City College
721 Cliff Drive
Santa Barbara, California


Humanist Society of Santa Barbara logo
Sponsored by the
Humanist Society of Santa Barbara

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The Climate Literacy Imperative

Featuring: 
Mark McCaffrey
Mark McCaffrey
Time: 
11:00am
Date: 
May 20, 2012
Location: 
Student Center
Palo Alto High School
50 Embarcadero Road
Palo Alto, California


Mark McCaffrey will discuss NCSE’s just-initiated efforts to promote climate change education via resources that it has developed in the areas of “Climate Change 101″, “Teaching Climate Change”, “Climate Change Denial”, and “Taking Action”.

This is a Forum Program presented by the
Humanists in Silicon Valley


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Visit the Humanists in Silicon Valley Forum Programs page

The Louisiana Science Education Act of 2008

Featuring: 
Barbara Forrest, Ph.D.
Barbara Forrest: Barbara Forrest
Time: 
2:00pm
Date: 
May 20, 2012
Location: 
University of California
Irvine, California



Freethought Alliance logo
Admission to the
3rd Annual Orange County Freethought Alliance Conference
is by paid registration only.

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After Kitzmiller — What?

Glenn BranchGlenn Branch
Featuring: 
Glenn Branch
Time: 
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Date: 
May 23, 2012
Location: 
2205 Haring Hall, on the UC Davis Campus

Kitzmiller v. Dover, the 2005 case establishing the unconstitutionality of teaching intelligent design creationism in the public schools, was a pivotal event in the history of the creationism/evolution controversy in the United States. Why was Kitzmiller the effective end of the second phase of antievolution strategy? And what is the third phase going to be like? NCSE's deputy director Glenn Branch discusses these questions —and more — with the University of California, Davis, Science Policy Journal Club.

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Teaching Science in a Climate of Controversy

Featuring: 
Peter M.J. Hess, Ph.D.
Peter M.J. Hess
Time: 
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Date: 
July 01, 2012
Location: 
First Presbyterian Church
1550 Pacific Avenue
Santa Rosa, California
(3/4 mile east of SRJC campus near Pacific Market)


The National Center for Science Education (NCSE), in Oakland, California, works to defend the integrity of science education. Peter Hess will talk about his own commitment to this cause and relate some of his experiences. He believes that at the heart of many attacks on science lies a questionable metaphysic of “human exceptionalism”—the common but unacknowledged assumption that Homo sapiens is exempt from biological constraints.

Talk is a presentation in the
"EnlightenUp"
Speaker Series
"Christians talking about their work and their passion"

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Email Peter Hess

Visit the Grand Canyon with NCSE!

Featuring: 
NCSE's Eugenie C. Scott and Steven Newton
Time: 
 
Date: 
July 16, 2012 - July 24, 2012
Location: 
Grand Canyon, Arizona

Twenty-two lucky members will raft the Grand Canyon from Marble Canyon to Diamond Creek, experiencing one of the most beautiful and majestic natural features on the planet.

Of course, as Eugenie Scott, NCSE's executive director, will inform the rafters, the whole Colorado plateau was laid down by the receding waters of Noah's Flood about 4,300 years ago, and the Grand Canyon itself was gouged catastrophically in a matter of days. Geologist Steven Newton will present the standard geological history of Grand Canyon to the rafters — and "they can make up their own minds."

NCSE's "Creation/Evolution Grand Canyon Raft Trip" is a wonderful way to learn about the creationism/evolution controversy in a fabulous natural setting.

Rafting rapids in Grand Canyon

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Could an Extraterrestrial be a Christian? Theology, Film, and the Evolution of Spiritual Consciousness

Featuring: 
Peter M.J. Hess, Ph.D.
Peter M.J. Hess
Time: 
 
To Be Announced
Date: 
July 20, 2012 - July 23, 2012
Location: 
American Scientific Affiliation Annual Meeting
Point Loma Nazarene University
3900 Lomaland Drive
San Diego, California


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Climate Science in Schools: the Next Evolution

Featuring: 
Eugenie C. Scott, Ph.D.
Eugenie C. Scott
Time: 
7:00pm
Date: 
August 06, 2012
Location: 
Cowles Auditorium
Humphrey School of Public Affairs
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota


For the past 30 years NCSE has primarily focused on defending the teaching of evolution in the classroom. Will Steger Foundation logoIn 2012, in response to complaints from teachers that they were coming under fire for teaching global warming and other climate change concepts, NCSE decided to support the teaching of climate change in addition to evolution.

Event sponsored by the
Will Steger Foundation
and the
Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Center for
Science, Technology and Public Policy


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