Updates
News from California, Florida, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio,Washington, the nation,
and abroad — Australia, Italy, and the UK.
NCSE NEWS
News from the Membership
What our members are doing to support evolution
and oppose pseudoscience wherever the need arises.
Celebrating the Origin Sesquicentennial
How NCSE members marked the 150th.
SPECIAL SECTION
Responding to Ray: How NCSE Dealt With the
Creationist Giveaway of Origin
Steven Newton
NCSE responded with dontdissdarwin.com and
guidance for student groups.
True Darwin, but False Comfort
Eugenie C Scott
NCSE's executive director's original comments
in the US News & World Report blog.
There You Go Again!
Eugenie C Scott
NCSE's executive director responds to Comfort.
Stealing Down the Road to Perdition
Brian Regal
Some of the material in Comfort's introduction
seemed awfully familiar to this author.
SPECIAL FEATURE
People & Places: Grand Old Man of Fundamentalism
Randy Moore
William Bell Riley shaped and influenced antievolutionary
action (and legislation) for decades.
MEMBERS' PAGES
Bountiful Books
Here is a selection of books for an overview
of evolution and related issues.
Meet the Mammals!
These books focus on the evolution and diversity of
those warm and fuzzy critters — mammals.
NCSE On the Road
Check the calendar here for NCSE speakers.
BOOK REVIEWS
Owen's Ape and Darwin's Bulldog by Christopher
E Cosans. Reviewed by Ron Amundson
Evolution: A Historical Perspective
by Bryson Brown. Reviewed by Tim Berra
The Young Charles Darwin by Keith Thomson
Reviewed by Léo F LaPorte
Banquet at Delmonico's: Great Minds, the Gilded
Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America
by Barry Werth. Reviewed by Jeffrey P Moran
The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle
Over Evolutionary Thought by Robert J Richards
Reviewed by Lennart Olsson
Stephen Jay Gould: Reflections on His View of Life
edited by Warren D Allmon, Patricia H Kelley, and Robert M Ross
Reviewed by Kevin Padian
Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and
Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design
by Peter J Bowler. Reviewed by George E Webb
Evolution: A Little History of a Great Idea
by Gerard Cheshire. Reviewed by Mark Terry
Charles Darwin:The Concise History of an Extraordinary Man
by Tim M Berra. Reviewed by Charles F Urbanowicz
Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Question to Catalog Life,
From Nanobacteria to New Monkeys by Rob Dunn
Reviewed by Mark Isaak
In the Light of Evolution, Vol 1: Adaptation and Complex
Design edited by John C Avise and Francisco J Ayala
Reviewed by Armin P Moczek
Creatures of Accident: The Rise of the Animal Kingdom
by Wallace Arthur. Reviewed by Christopher Nedin
The Timetree of Life edited by S Blair Hedges and Sudhir Kumar
Reviewed by Kevin Padian
Natural Selections: Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars, and
Other Realities of Evolution by David P Barash
Reviewed by J Michael Plavcan
Darwin's Legacy: Scenarios in Human Evolution by Sue Taylor
Parker and Karin Enstam Jaffe. Reviewed by John H Relethford
But Is It Science? The Philosophical Question in the Creation/
Evolution Controversy edited by Robert T Pennock and
Michael Ruse. Reviewed by David B Resnick
Evolution: The First Four Billion Years edited by Michael Ruse
and Joseph Travis. Reviewed by Stanley A Rice
Intelligent Design: William A Dembski & Michael Ruse in Dialogue
edited by Robert B Stewart. Reviewed by Evan B Hazard
The Evolution Controversy: A Survey of Competing Theories by
Thomas B Fowler and Daniel Kuebler. Reviewed by Jim Hoffman
The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the
Origins Debate by John H Walton. Reviewed by James F McGrath
For the Rock Record: Geologists on Intelligent Design
edited by Jill Schneiderman and Warren D Allmon
Reviewed by Mark A Wilson
Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism edited by
Andrew J Petto and Laurie R Godfrey. Reviewed by Joel Cracraft
Nature's Witness: How Evolution Can Inspire Faith
by Daniel M Harrell. Reviewed by Robert Cornwall
Darwin and God by Nick Spencer. Reviewed by John F Haught
Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths About Science and Religion
edited by Ronald L Numbers. Reviewed by Richard G Olson
Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science
by Robert Park. Reviewed by Adrian L Melott
The Religion and Science Debate:Why Does It Continue? edited
by Harold W Attridge. Reviewed by David A Rintoul
Evolution and the Big Questions: Sex, Race, Religion, and Other
Matters by David N Stamos. Reviewed by David Livingstone Smith
Evolution and Religion: A Dialogue by Michael Ruse
Reviewed by David N Stamos
