Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
If you haven’t read the recent New York magazine article by David Wallace-Wells on climate change, you probably should. I read this viral (and absolutely terrifying) article on July 10, 2017, under somewhat unusual circumstances. As I had it open on my phone, my family and I were driving on…
There is a particular feeling that arises when you see something very grand and beautiful in the natural world. Or, at least, I thought there was a particular feeling, but in the past week I have had an opportunity to see many people have this kind of striking encounter, and I noticed some more…
NCSE is pleased to announce that Brad Hoge has joined the NCSE staff as Director of Teacher Support. After a stint teaching middle and high school science, Hoge earned his Ph.D. in ecology and environmental biology at Rice University, with a dissertation on the responses of wetlands to sea level…
Looking for something else, I stumbled across the following quotation, reproduced on a young-earth creationist ministry’s website under the heading “Quotes to Note” and credited to Creation 2(1):4, which appeared in January 1979:The obvious lesson from the study of fossils is the elementary…
Seven in ten Americans think that global warming is happening, and almost three in five think that, if it is happening, it is mostly owing to human activity, but only about one in eight know that nearly all climate scientists agree that global warming is happening as a result of human activity.…
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 37, number 3 — is the seventh issue in the newsletter's new, streamlined, and full-color format.Featured are Jon Perry's guide to…
The decision to remove evolution from Turkey's national curriculum is going to be challenged in court, according to the Hurriyet Daily News (July 2, 2017).As NCSE previously reported, a revision of the national curriculum, in which a unit entitled "The Origin of Life and Evolution" was…
NCSE is delighted to congratulate Laura A. Bankers, a graduate student in the department of biology at the University of Iowa, and her colleagues for winning the 2017 Thomas Henry Huxley Award from the Society for the Study of Evolution, in recognition of their work with NCSE's Science Booster…
A few years ago, in the introduction to a special issue of the philosophy journal Synthese focusing on creationism, I wrote:In the first wave of antievolution activity—the attempts during the 1920s to remove evolution from the classroom—philosophers were all but uninvolved in the debate.…