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Eugenie C. Scott NCSE is pleased to announce the addition of a further batch of videos to NCSE's YouTube channel. Especially noteworthy are Eugenie C. Scott speaking on "Legends, Hoaxes, Frauds, and Frauds of Science" at the SkeptiCal conference in 2013, Joshua Rosenau speaking…
Falsifia-behe-lity
H. L. Mencken once wrote, “There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.” (William Dembski mangles the quotation in The Design Revolution [2004], as Jeffrey Shallit observed.) When it comes to the problem of creationism, the solution that meets…
Top 5 Creationist Claims About Grand Canyon: #5 Fossil Footprints Show Animals Fleeing the Flood
About eleven miles past the launch point to the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, boats just beginning their voyage down the turbulent, vermillion river often pull over to the left bank to examine a bedroom-sized slab of pale sandstone. This block of the Coconino Sandstone long ago detached from…
And The Winner Is...
Those of us who live and breathe climate and energy issues know the answer to typical pop quiz questions like, "What's the nation most responsible for climate change?" Well, the largest emitter of carbon into the atmosphere is currently China, but historically the United States is responsible…
Forty-Five Years after Epperson, Part 3
The saga continues! In part 1, posted on the forty-fifth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Epperson v. Arkansas, I related how the state law prohibiting the teaching of evolution was enacted in the first place. In part 2, I discussed how the Arkansas Education Association…
Answer Monday!
Photo Credit: Cayusa via Compfight cc   This past week on Fossil Friday, I gave you a turkey of a fossil. Or a turkey-like fossil.  Or what the UC Museum of Paleontology calls a "extremely bird-like" fossil.   So who was it? Compsognathus longipes…
NCSE's latest in Evolution: Education and Outreach
"Old wine in new bottles" (PDF), a review of Jeffrey P. Moran's American Genesis by NCSE's Glenn Branch, was just published in Evolution: Education and Outreach. According to the abstract, Moran's book "examines the Scopes trial in particular and the antievolution movement in general through the…
The Disco. ‘tute as Brave Sir Robin
Bravely bold Sir Robin Rode forth from Camelot He was not afraid to die, oh brave Sir Robin He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp Or to have his eyes gouged out and his elbows broken…
RNCSE 33:6 now on-line
NCSE is pleased to announce that the latest issue of Reports of the National Center for Science Education is now available on-line. The issue — volume 33, number 6 — features Adam Laats's "The Missionary Supposition: Evolution Education and Creationist Culture" and Michael D. Barton's "Bite-…

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