Science Is Constantly Evolving
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Image: bibliomaniac15 via Compfight cc Last week, one of our fabulous NCSE interns discovered a—shall we say, interesting?—article on both evolution and climate change from none other than the Institute for Creation Research. The article discussed research by scientists at the…
Update: The survey described below reflects the input from a group of self-selected educators, not a randomized sample. A more robust national survey to determine whether, where, and how climate and global change topics are being taught is much needed, but until such a survey is deployed, the…
Stefaan Blancke, a postdoctoral researcher in the department of philosophy and moral sciences at Ghent University in Belgium, and the lead author of “Creationism in Europe: Facts, Gaps, and Prospects,” is here to answer a few questions about the article, as described in part 1.…
In honor of the centenary of the death of Alfred Russel Wallace, NCSE is pleased to list a number of on-line resources on Wallace's life and work. Wallace Online curated by John van Wyhe The Wallace Correspondence Project directed by George Beccaloni The Alfred Russel…
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You would be surprised how hard it is to light a candy bar on fire. Last week I had an inspiring adventure in middle school science education: I was invited to help my son Robert and his classmates burn food for science. Robert is an eighth grader at a Roman Catholic school in Berkeley…
Discussing creationism in 1999, Stephen Jay Gould contended, “This controversy is as locally and distinctively American as apple pie and Uncle Sam.” But even before Gould offered his view, the historian of science Ronald L. Numbers had already devoted a section of his monumental history of…
There was quite the sense of déjà vu in watching Thursday night's episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,The Daily Show on Facebook Journalist Mark Fainaru-Wada described what he and…
For the last month, we've been engaged in a long skull-a-thon on Fossil Friday. We had Homo rhodesiensis and Homo ergaster and Australopithecus africanus—oh my! So who was last week's unfortunate specimen? From Eric Meikle: "This…