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Brian Alters honored by Royal Society of Canada

  • October 11th, 2009
Brian AltersBrian Alters

NCSE is delighted to congratulate Brian Alters, a member of NCSE's board of directors, on receiving the prestigious McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of Science from the Royal Society of Canada, in recognition of "his world-famous work on the promotion of education about evolution."

Catching up with RNCSE

  • September 20th, 2009

Selected content from volume 29, number 3, of Reports of the National Center for Science Education is now available on NCSE's website.

Eugenie C. Scott reviews Creation

  • September 11th, 2009

In a guest post at The Panda's Thumb blog, NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott reviewed the new film about Darwin, Creation, describing it as "a thoughtful, well-made film that will change many views of Darwin held by the public — for the good."

The Greatest Show on Earth

  • September 9th, 2009

Richard Dawkins's new book The Greatest Show on Earth (Free Press, 2009) "is a positive commemoration of the triumph of a grand arching theory that has withstood the continuous onslaught of 150 years of new data, including the tsunami of molecular, genetic, and sequence data from the past fifteen years," according to Douglas Theobald, whose review now appears in the advance on-line section of NCSE's website.

NCSE is twittering

  • September 8th, 2009

NCSE is twittering! The latest in the creationism/evolution controversy, in 140-character bursts! Join now to start receiving NCSE's tweets.

Voyaging with Darwin and RNCSE

  • August 29th, 2009
HMS BeagleHMS Beagle

On August 29, 1831, Darwin received a letter broaching the idea of his sailing on the Beagle. After his father reluctantly decided to allow him to go and after Captain FitzRoy overcame his qualms about the troubling shape of the young naturalist's nose, Darwin embarked on a voyage around the world — and the rest is history. To celebrate the anniversary, NCSE is offering advance on-line publication of a handful of reviews on recent books about Darwin.

Project Steve: n > 1100

  • August 26th, 2009

With the addition of Stephen D. Kinrade on August 25, 2009, NCSE's Project Steve attained its 1100th signatory.

NCSE and the Grand Canyon 2010

  • August 21st, 2009

Explore the Grand Canyon with Scott and Gish! Seats are now available for NCSE's next excursion to the Grand Canyon — as featured in The New York Times (October 6, 2005).

Catching up with RNCSE

  • August 20th, 2009

Selected content from volume 29, number 2, of Reports of the National Center for Science Education is now available on NCSE's website.

Philosophers, creationists, and serious brainiacs

  • August 12th, 2009

NCSE's deputy director Glenn Branch's review of the updated edition of But Is It Science? The Philosophical Question in the Creation/Evolution Controversy (Prometheus Books, 2009) appeared in eSkeptic for August 12, 2009.

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