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"Respect Requires Repeal"
Barbara ForrestBarbara Forrest explains the murky origins and adverse effects of the so-called Louisiana Science Education Act — and argues that respect for the integrity of science education requires a repeal of the antievolution law — in a long essay posted at the Louisiana…
A glimpse of Darwin's Archipelago
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Steve Jones's The Darwin Archipelago: The Naturalist's Career Beyond Origin of Species (Yale University Press, 2011). The preview consists of the first two pages of each of the nine chapters — "The Queen's Orang-Utan," "The Green Tyrannosaurs," "…
RNCSE 31:2 now on-line
NCSE is pleased to announce the second issue of Reports of the National Center for Science Education in its new on-line format. The issue — volume 31, number 2 — includes Matt Cartmill's "Turtles All the Way Down: The Atlas of Creation"; Alice Beck Kehoe's "The Lost Civilizations of North America…
Polling evolution in Britain
Two questions in Public Attitudes to Science 2011, a survey conducted by Ipsos MORI in association with the British Science Association for the United Kingdom's Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills, are relevant to the creationism/evolution controversy. The topline report details (PDF…
Geoscience teachers add their voice for evolution
The chorus of support for the teaching of evolution continues, with a statement from the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, issued in 2006. In its statement, the NAGT recognizes that "the scientific theory of evolution is a foundational concept of science, and therefore must also be a…
A preview of The Darwinian Tourist
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Christopher Wills's The Darwinian Tourist: Viewing the World Through Evolutionary Eyes (Oxford University Press, 2010). The excerpt, chapter 1, takes a dive in Indonesia's Lembeh Strait as the chance to introduce the concept of common descent. Wills…
Kenneth R. Miller to receive Gould award
Kenneth R. MillerNCSE congratulates Kenneth R. Miller for winning the 2011 Stephen Jay Gould Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution. Professor of Biology and Royce Family Professor for Teaching Excellence at Brown University, Miller is a Supporter of NCSE as well as a…
Polling creationism and evolution around the world
A new poll conducted by Ipsos for Reuters News in twenty-four countries found that 41% of respondents identified themselves as "evolutionists" and 28% as "creationists," with 31% indicating that they "simply don't know what to believe," according to a press release issued by Ipsos on April 25,…
NCSE and the Grand Canyon 2011
Explore the Grand Canyon with Scott, Newton, and Gish! Seats are still available for NCSE's next excursion to the Grand Canyon — as featured in The New York Times (October 6, 2005). From June 30 to July 8, 2011, NCSE will again explore the wonders of creation and evolution on a Grand Canyon river…

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