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Glenn Branch

07.15.2013

A glimpse of Life's Ratchet

Life's Ratchet

NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Peter M. Hoffmann's Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos (Basic Books, 2012). The preview consists of the greater part of chapter 8, "The Watch and the Ribosome," in which Hoffman asks, "How do molecules evolve?" and replies, "Despite the histrionic debates in various American school boards, the mechanism of evolution is ... quite obvious when contemplated with an open mind." Hoffman addresses "irreducible complexity" and "the information challenge" in passing later in the chapter.

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Glenn Branch

07.12.2013

NCSE at "Communicating Climate Science"

The American Geophysical Union held a conference on "Communicating Climate Science: A Historic Look to the Future" — and NCSE was there in force.

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Glenn Branch

07.09.2013

Help wanted: RNCSE editor

NCSE is seeking to hire a new editor for Reports of the National Center for Science Education to replace Andrew J. Petto, who is retiring after more than sixteen years of editing RNCSE.

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Glenn Branch

07.02.2013

NCSE's Scott interviewed by Inside Climate News

Eugenie C. Scott

NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott was interviewed by Inside Climate News (July 2, 2013).

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Glenn Branch

06.24.2013

What's new on NCSE's YouTube channel

Eugenie C. Scott

NCSE is pleased to announce the addition of a further batch of videos to NCSE's YouTube channel.

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Glenn Branch

06.20.2013

A chance to help NCSE's archives!

NCSE's archives house a unique trove of material on the creationism/evolution controversy, and we regard it as part of our mission to preserve it for posterity — as well as for occasions such as Kitzmiller v. Dover, where NCSE's archives helped to establish the creationist antecedents of the "intelligent design" movement.

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