Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
A new report from the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication and the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication suggests (PDF) that a slim majority of Republicans accept that climate change is happening. The researchers surveyed 726 adults who recently identified…
NCSE's Josh Rosenau contributed "Will Climate Change Denial Inherit the Wind?" to Mobilizing Ideas, the blog of the Center for the Study of Social Movements at the University of Notre Dame. "The persistence of the creationist movement is a remarkable example of the power of social movements, and…
National Public Radio highlighted climate change education in a segment of its Morning Edition show broadcast on March 27, 2013, featuring NCSE's Mark McCaffrey. "By the time today's K-12 students grow up, the challenges posed by climate change are expected to be severe and sweeping," the segment…
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Marlene Zuk's Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live (W. W. Norton, 2013). The preview consists of the whole of the introduction, in which Zuk sketches her argument against "the idea that our modern lives are…
In a March 20, 2013, editorial, the Baton Rouge Advocate editorially endorsed Louisiana's Senate Bill 26 (PDF), which if enacted would repeal the so-called Louisiana Science Education Act. "Ostensibly, the law is to allow divergent opinions to be taught in public school classrooms about evolution…
Eugenie C. ScottNCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott was awarded the Richard H. and Glenda G. Rosenblatt Lectureship in Evolutionary Biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography for 2013. According to Scripps, "The Rosenblatt Lecturer is selected for current,…
"Debate about climate change has been cut out of the national curriculum for children under 14," reports the Guardian (March 17, 2013), referring to a new draft of the British national curriculum currently under development. While the existing curriculum explicitly discusses sustainable…
Eugenie C. ScottNCSE is pleased to announce the addition of a further batch of videos to NCSE's YouTube channel. Especially noteworthy is Eugenie C. Scott speaking on "In the Beginning: Science, Origins, and Religion" at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2012. Also…
Mark McCaffrey"A flurry of bills that critics say would allow climate change denial to be taught in public schools have been moving through state legislatures throughout the United States," reported ClimateWire (March 6, 2013). Citing laws in place in Louisiana and Tennessee, as…