Science Is Constantly Evolving
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Today on Fossil Friday, we are starting our month long lead up to the Day of the Dead. This whole month it'll be skulls, skulls and more skulls! Eric Meikle, one of our in-house anthropologists, tells me that this skull will be easy for anyone with a background in human evolution or…
NCSE's deputy director Glenn Branch contributed "Bad Science: Genetics, as Misread by Creationism" to GeneWatch (pp. 29-30), the magazine of the Council for Responsible Genetics. "[R]elying on a general trust in genetics and a general ignorance of, skepticism about, or hostility toward evolution,…
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of the second edition of Carl Zimmer's The Tangled Bank: An Introduction to Evolution (Roberts and Company, 2013). The preview consists of the first few pages of chapter 14, "A New Kind of Ape," in which Zimmer presents "the latest consensus about…
Those with an interest in the history of anti-evolutionism should check out this recent article by Adam Shapiro in Nebraska History. It discusses a 1924 slander trial in Nebraska where a teacher sued, successfully, after being denied a college English position. The teacher was accused of…
With the world all abuzz about the recent release of the fifth edition of the IPCC report, many teachers are no doubt wondering how to take advantage of this teachable moment. Should they address the report in social studies? In an environmental sciences course? How can…
"Kentucky's A-minus defense of evolution" (PDF), by NCSE's Glenn Branch, was just published in Evolution: Education and Outreach. The abstract of his article: "A recent report from the Kentucky Department of Education summarizes and responds to comments from the public about the treatment of…
When, 153 pages into reading Jonathan Sperber’s Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life (2013), I paused to skip ahead to read the section about the relationship—such as it was—between Marx and Darwin, and to write a blog post about it, I didn’t think that I would be returning to blog…
In looking at the side-by-side model projections of where the planet could go on low vs. high emissions scenarios in the recent IPCC report, I'm reminded of an expression from a young artist conveying a similar dichotomous view of the world. Image courtesy of Susie Strife…
Are you concerned about the integrity of science education in the United States? Are you worried about efforts to undermine the teaching of evolution and climate change? Are you willing to work with your neighbors to defend and improve the quality of science education in formal and informal…