Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
Writing in Scientific American, NCSE's Eugenie C. Scott and Minda Berbeco warn that "a move is afoot to keep climate science out of classrooms." As they note, "objections to the theory of evolution have bedeviled individual teachers, school boards, state boards of education and state…
By WolfmanSF (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons Last week on Fossil Friday, I gave you a stinky specimen to identify. Why stinky? Well this one was quickly identified by our online friends as coming from the La Brea tar pits. And though it was pulled…
When years from now people look back on how we began to address climate change by preparing young people with knowledge and knowhow about climate and energy, they should know about people like AshEl Eldridge. A passionate educator-performer-comedian with ACE, the…
On September 17, the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) held a hearing on new proposed instructional materials/textbooks for science and math classes, and the focus was clearly on the topic of evolution. Almost five dozen people spoke to the board, including NCSE’s Josh Rosenau. (For background…
This week on the Fossil Friday...my what a lovely skull you have! This unfortunate fellow shouldn't be completely foreign to those of us in North America, since we've seen its relatives alive in other parts of the world. But alas, they are no longer native to our continent.…
The Darwin Day Roadshow is returning! The Roadshow is a project of the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, in which NESCent staff shares their enthusiasm for evolutionary science with students, teachers, and the general public on the occasion of Charles Darwin's birthday, February 12.…
I see that volume 20 of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin is out—and that I’m thanked in the front matter. Why? Thereby hangs a tale, which I told in the print supplement to Reports of the National Center for Science…
For the last eight years, Joseph Levine, co-author of one of the most widely used biology textbook programs in the nation, has been teaching professional development courses for high school teachers through the Organization for Tropical Studies at the La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica. The…
While listening on Tuesday to the Texas State Board of Education hearings on the adoption of science textbooks, I couldn’t help but think, “There they go again”, as citizens extolled that: Microevolution is OK, but “macroevolution” is not acceptable. Evolution is a religion that equates to…