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Fossil Friday!
  This week on the Fossil Friday...my what a lovely skull you have!  This unfortunate fellow shouldn't be completely foreign to those of us in North America, since we've seen its relatives alive in other parts of the world.  But alas, they are no longer native to our continent.…
On the road again with NESCent
The Darwin Day Roadshow is returning! The Roadshow is a project of the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, in which NESCent staff shares their enthusiasm for evolutionary science with students, teachers, and the general public on the occasion of Charles Darwin's birthday, February 12.…
In Search of a Beard
I see that volume 20 of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin is out—and that I’m thanked in the front matter. Why? Thereby hangs a tale, which I told in the print supplement to Reports of the National Center for Science…
Learning about Life after Earth
For the last eight years, Joseph Levine, co-author of one of the most widely used biology textbook programs in the nation, has been teaching professional development courses for high school teachers through the Organization for Tropical Studies at the La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica. The…
There They Go Again (Of Necessity)
While listening on Tuesday to the Texas State Board of Education hearings on the adoption of science textbooks, I couldn’t help but think, “There they go again”, as citizens extolled that: Microevolution is OK, but “macroevolution” is not acceptable. Evolution is a religion that equates to…
Did Paley Anticipate Behe?
Anyone reading Michael J. Behe’s Darwin’s Black Box (1996) who ever took a university course in the philosophy of religion might be forgiven for thinking that Behe’s central argument for “intelligent design” seemed familiar. Isn’t it a reiteration of the central argument in William…
Fossil Friday, Monday Answer!
  Photo Credit: Mike Souza via Compfight cc   Last week on the Fossil Friday, I posted a picture that I thought would be almost too easy. There was quite a bit of controversy at the NCSE office though. Was it an archaeopteryx?  Hesperornis?  No, it turns out our…
Texas Biology Textbooks: The Culture War Expands
I’ve already blogged about (and the joint TFN/NCSE press release detailed) how ideologically-driven textbook reviewers tried to undermine Texas textbooks’ coverage of evolution and climate change. But it turns out, there’s another front of the culture wars being waged over Texas textbooks: abortion…
Another AiG Government Bailout
When Answers in Genesis chief Ken Ham isn't dealing with employees being zotted by lightning, or getting schooled on theology by a college student, he's trying to build an amusement park centered on Noah's Ark. He wants it to be full-sized (assuming they're right about how long a cubit was), he…

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