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How Stupid Not to Have Thought of That! Part 1
“How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!” was Thomas Henry Huxley’s reflection on reading Darwin’s Origin of Species. What might elicit such a reaction from a contemporary biologist? Today the question is answered by Rudolf Raff, Distinguished Professor and James H. Rudy…
How Stupid Not to Have Thought of That!
In his essay “On the Reception of the ‘Origin of Species,’” which was published in The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887), Thomas Henry Huxley famously commented on how he himself received it: “My reflection, when I first made myself master of the central idea of the ‘Origin,’ was…
Break out the Grand Canyon Sorting Hat!
Rafters ponder their doom before rafting Lava Falls Last Monday, we reached the deadline for applications for the first ever NCSE Grand Canyon teacher scholarship. For the 141 applicants(!), this is the end of the hard part, but for those of us making the selection, it’s the start of a really…
Darwin Day approaches
It's time to dust off your Darwin costume again: less than a month remains before Darwin Day 2015! Colleges and universities, schools, libraries, museums, churches, civic groups, and just plain folks across the country — and the world — are preparing to celebrate Darwin Day, on or around…
Misconception Monday: Whether Weather or Climate
Okay, people, we’re getting back to the basics. After my (frankly) exhausting exasperation with Nicholas Wade, I need a palette cleanser. So what’s the most basic misconception I have on my to-do list? This one: Misconception: Weather and climate are the same thing. …
The Appellant’s Brief in Scopes, Part 3
What, specifically, were the grounds for Scopes’s appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court? That was the question that I began to address in part 1, relying on a copy (big PDF) of the brief at the Clarence Darrow Digital Collection of the University of Minnesota’s Law Library. I started to…
A glimpse of Lost Antarctica
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of James McClintock's Lost Antarctica: Adventures in a Disappearing Land (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). The preview consists of chapter 2, "It is All about the Ice." "The ecological impacts of rapid climate change on the marine life of the…
Top 5 Creationist Claims About Grand Canyon: #1 The Great Unconformity Was Caused By Noah’s Flood, Part 3
The creationist ship is foundering. In parts one and two we examined the young-earth creationist claim that the Great Unconformity in Grand Canyon was carved by the onset of Noah’s Flood. Today we’ll take this a step further, and explain what we would expect to see if the creationist story were…
The Appellant’s Brief in Scopes, Part 2
What, specifically, were the grounds for Scopes’s appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court? That was the question that I began to address in part 1, relying on a copy (big PDF) of the brief at the Clarence Darrow Digital Collection of the University of Minnesota’s Law Library. I started to…

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