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Glenn Branch
08.31.2016

NCSE and the Grand Canyon 2017

One of the 2014 boats running Lava Falls

Explore the Grand Canyon with NCSE! Reservations are now available for NCSE's next excursion to the Grand Canyon — as featured in the documentary No Dinosaurs in Heaven. From June 29 to July 7, 2017, NCSE will again explore the wonders of creation and evolution on a Grand Canyon river run. 

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Glenn Branch
08.22.2016

Changes on NCSE's board

Francisco J. AyalaFrancisco J. Ayala

At a recent meeting of NCSE's board of directors, Francisco J. Ayala was elected as president, replacing Brian Alters, whose term on the board expired.

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Glenn Branch
08.17.2016

Congratulations to David Amidon

David AmidonNCSE is pleased to congratulate David Amidon for receiving a Presidential Award for Environmental Educators for 2016, presented by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Glenn Branch
08.15.2016

A preview of The Madhouse Effect

The Madhouse Effect cover

NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Michael E. Mann and Tom Toles's The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy (Columbia University Press, 2016).

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Glenn Branch
08.15.2016

Presbyterians add their voice for evolution

PC (USA) sealAt the 222nd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) held June 18-25, 2016, the assembly voted to adopt a proposed "Affirmation of Creation."

According to the affirmation, scientific inquiry provides "descriptions and ever more profound understandings" of God's creation.

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Glenn Branch
08.05.2016

NCSE's Rosenau on Ark Encounter

New Scientist logoNCSE's Josh Rosenau contributed a column, under the headline "School field trips to creationist Ark? Sink that idea right now," to New Scientist (August 5, 2016).

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Glenn Branch
06.29.2016

What's new on NCSE's YouTube channel

NCSE is pleased to announce the addition of Ann Reid's talk "Science Class is for Science, Right? Think Again," delivered at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, on March 31, 2016, to NCSE's YouTube channel.

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Glenn Branch
06.16.2016

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. And we are beginning to amass a similar trove of material on disputes over climate change education.

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Glenn Branch
06.07.2016

Facebook: n > 170,000

A milestone: there are now over 170,000 fans of NCSE's Facebook page. Why not join them, by visiting the page and becoming a fan by clicking on the "Like" box by NCSE's name?

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Glenn Branch
06.06.2016

NCSE's Rosenau in the Portland Tribune

Portland Tribune logoAfter the Portland, Oregon, board of education adopted a resolution on climate change education that called (PDF) for the elimination of instructional material "that is found to express doubt about the severity of the climate crisis or its root in human activities," NCSE's Josh Rosenau wrote a column for the Portland Tribune (June 2, 2016) to put the resolution in context.

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