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Photo Credit: brewbooks via Compfight cc Last week I gave you a little greenery to lighten your frosty winter week. It was a cluster of flowers from an ancient plant. My challenge: what plant was it? The answer: Lyonothamnus parvifolius, aka Ironwood. This…
Most people who have heard of Genie Scott know her as the public face, or perhaps the embodiment, of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE). I can’t remember how many times over the years I’ve told someone, including teachers, scientists, or others one might expect to have heard of us,…
With the polar vortex sweeping the nation, I thought I'd bring you a little greenery to brighten your day. Well, it was green a million years ago...or five million? Ten? You tell me! What was this festive plant, what epoch does it hail from, and if you are feeling particularly…
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Alan de Queiroz's The Monkey's Voyage: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life (Basic Books, 2014). The preview consists of the introduction, "Of Garter Snakes and Gondwana," in which de Queiroz engagingly explains his project…
Call me a sybarite if you must, a crazed party animal, but I spent the evening of New Year’s Eve 2013 watching Steven Spielberg’s film Lincoln (2012), which I missed when it was in the theaters. I enjoyed it quite a lot, especially because a large portion of my leisure reading over the…
All mankind is of one author and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language, and every chapter must be so translated…God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library…
Back in 2007 Oregon science teacher Greg Craven posted a video on YouTube called "The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See" weighing the pros and cons of taking climate change seriously by asking "what's the worst that could happen?" His conclusion: it we don't take the possibility…
As a dog returneth to his vomit, I seem to be returning to, if not my folly, then Michael Behe’s folly. (I was going to try a pun here with “folly” and “falsifiability”—possibly involving “follysifiability”—but it was too much of a strain.) Previously, I was examining Behe’s…
Last time we examined what creationists think about how the rocks of Grand Canyon were formed. Now we’re going to look at the fatal flaws in this creationist model, and why it doesn’t fit with what we see in Grand Canyon. One major flaw is the thickness of the sediment. The flat-lying Paleozoic…