Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
A recent poll (PDF) conducted for the League of Conservation Voters suggests that young voters regard climate change as a threat and are suspicious of climate change denial. A July 26, 2013, press release from the LCV commented, "Climate deniers are so last generation. LCV released a bipartisan…
NCSE is pleased to congratulate Kansas Citizens for Science for receiving a 2013 Outstanding Contributions to Science Education Award from the Kansas Association of Teachers of Science. In the summer 2013 issue of the KATS newsletter, KATS praised KCFS for its efforts, writing (PDF, p. 16):…
July 15 — July 23, 2013
The 2013 Rafters
Back row (left to right): Trey Duffy, Andrea Vogt, David Bottjer, Alan Heath, Jim Lippard, Lewis Smith, Steven Newton, Ted Reid
Middle row: Linda Breci, Teri Cooper, John Krump, Mary Jean Thompson,…
William J. Guste Jr.William J. "Billy" Guste Jr., who served for twenty years as the attorney general of Louisiana and who assiduously defended the state's Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science in Public School Instruction Act, died on July 24, 2013, at the…
A new poll from YouGov suggests (PDF) that in the United States the level of public acceptance of creationism and the level for support for teaching creationism in the public schools are down. Asked "Which of the following statements comes closest to your views on the origin of human…
Eugenie C. ScottNCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott is to be inducted into the Independent Investigation Group's Houdini Hall of Honor, according to a July 20, 2013, press release from the IIG. The honor is bestowed on people who have devoted their careers to promoting…
A national survey reveals that one in eleven Australians does not believe in evolution — and three in eleven think that humans lived at the same time as dinosaurs. The survey, conducted by Auspoll for the Australian Academy of Science, was intended to assess the level of science literacy in…
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 4 — features Daniel J. Glass's "Talking Animals, Silly Jokes, and Natural Selection," James J. Krupa's "Teaching Evolution for a Future…
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Peter M. Hoffmann's Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos (Basic Books, 2012). The preview consists of the greater part of chapter 8, "The Watch and the Ribosome," in which Hoffman asks, "How do molecules evolve?" and…