Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
Dear NCSE members and friends of science, I’m writing in a profound state of shock, as I’m sure you’ll understand. You are no doubt in the same state. For the National Center for Science Education, of course, the election of someone who thinks climate change is a hoax and whose running mate once…
This fall, I had a problem. Our Iowa City club was invited back to a large Halloween event, The University of Iowa’s Creepy Campus Crawl. But, we were under probation—in trouble for being too much fun the last time around. Our activities in 2015 generated “excessive audience interest,” leading to…
Ralph J. Cicerone, immediate past president of the National Academy of Sciences, died on November 5, 2016, at the age of 73, according to a memorial notice from the Academy. "The entire scientific community is mourning the sudden and untimely loss of this great leader who has been unexpectedly…
By this point in the school year, I hope that you have heard of NCSE’s Scientist in the Classroom program. But if not, please check it out! In designing the program, we wanted to be sure that scientists and teachers were able to work together to come up with a hands-on activity that fit in with…
With the addition of Steven G. Allen on October 18, 2016, NCSE's Project Steve attained its 1400th signatory. A tongue-in-cheek parody of the long-standing creationist tradition of amassing lists of "scientists who doubt evolution" or "scientists who dissent from Darwinism," Project Steve…
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Donald R. Prothero's Giants of the Lost World: Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Monsters of South America (Smithsonian Books, 2016). The preview consists of chapter 4, "Demise of the Dinosaurs." "Why did the dinosaurs vanish?" Prothero writes…
NCSE is pleased to congratulate Jason R. Wiles on receiving the Evolution Education Award for 2016 from the National Association of Biology Teachers and the Excellence in Teaching Award for 2016 from the Association of College and University Biology Educators. The NABT award, sponsored by…
Jack T. Chick, the author and publisher of numerous fundamentalist cartoon tracts, died on October 23, 2016, at the age of 92, according to the Facebook page of Chick Tracts. Writing in Los Angeles magazine in 2003, Robert Ito suggested, "With more than 500 million copies of his 142 books…
As I was researching and writing “Dixon, Not Darwin,” about a viciously racist passage sometimes misattributed to Darwin but actually taken from Thomas F. Dixon Jr.’s novel The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (1905), I was intermittently chatting with my colleague…