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Darwin on the Big Screen
  "Creation", the new film about Darwin starring Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly, premieres on Friday, January 22, in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Berkeley, Boston, and Washington, DC. The movie is based on Annie's Box (Creation: Darwin, His Daughter & Human…
Eugenie C. Scott honored by the National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences is to honor NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott with its most prestigious award, the Public Welfare Medal. According to a January 11, 2010, press release, "the medal is presented annually to honor extraordinary use of science for the public good"; Scott was…
Further praise for Evolution vs. Creationism
Lawrence S. LernerLawrence S. Lerner lauded the second edition of Eugenie C. Scott's Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction (Greenwood Press/University of California Press, 2009), writing, "Evolution vs. Creationism is a superb introductory guide through the tangle, whether…
Creation premieres in the United States
Creation, the new film about Darwin featuring Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly, premieres in the United States on January 22, 2010, in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington DC, and Boston. In her review of Creation at The Panda's Thumb blog, NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott…
Top ten evolution/creationism stories of the year
PRESS RELEASE   TOP TEN EVOLUTION/CREATIONISM STORIES OF THE YEAR Darwin celebrated; evolution still under attack       Evolution fared well in 2009. The world celebrated the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th of the publication…
Top ten evolution/creationism stories of the year
PRESS RELEASE TOP TEN EVOLUTION/CREATIONISM STORIES OF THE YEAR Darwin celebrated; evolution still under attack Evolution fared well in 2009. The world celebrated the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th of the publication of his On the Origin of…
Lawsuit against science center over creationist film
A lawsuit charges that the California Science Center violated both the First Amendment and a contract to rent its Imax Theater when it canceled a screening of Darwin's Dilemma, the Los Angeles Times (December 29, 2009) reports. The lawsuit was filed by the American Freedom Alliance, a Los Angeles-…
Two end-of-the-year reviews
As 2009 and its celebrations of the bicentennial of Darwin's birth and the sesquicentennial of the publication of the Origin near their end, NCSE is pleased to bid them farewell by offering a peek at two reviews forthcoming in 2010 in Reports of the NCSE. First, David B. Richman reviews Michael…
NCSE's Newton in the Philadelphia Inquirer
NCSE's Steven Newton's op-ed "Science denial is on the rise" appeared in the December 24, 2009, issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer. "From evolution to global warming to vaccines," he wrote, "science is under assault from denialists — those who dismiss well-tested scientific knowledge as merely one…

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