An anti-evolution and climate change-denying bill (SB 893/HB 368) could come to a vote in the Tennessee legislature as early as Monday, March 19. The teachers, parents, and scientists of Tennessee need your help to stop it.

by Eugenie C Scott

Preface

In the spring 2005 issue of California Wild, the magazine of the California Academy of Sciences, NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott, a Fellow of the Academy, discussed creationism in California, in a piece entitled "In My Backyard." A section of the article briefly described controversies over evolution education in the Roseville, California, schools over the last few years.

by Glenn Branch

The seven episodes of Evolution received glowing reviews not only from scientists (see Timothy H Goldsmith’s review in Science 2001 Sep 23; 293: 2209–10, reprinted in RNCSE 2001 (Jan–Apr) 21 (1–2): 51–3, and Frans de Waal’s review in Natural History 2001 Nov; 76–7) but also from the mainstream media. Writing in The New York Times (2001 Sep 24; E5), Julie Salamon said that “[a] powerful sense of drama, discovery and intellectual enthusiasm runs through this rich eight-hour series ...