Science Is Constantly Evolving
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This past Sunday, my favorite advice columnist, The Ethicist (whose column appears in The New York Times), considered an intriguing question. A parent from Cambridge, Massachusetts, wrote in, concerned that her daughter’s biology class had been asked to take a public action on…
One of the most popular resources on NCSE’s website is Robert A. Moore’s “The Impossible Voyage of Noah’s Ark,” which originally appeared in Creation/Evolution 4(1):1–47 in 1983—which, indeed, was the whole of that issue. In the space of just a shade under twenty thousand words…
Photo Credit: Ana_Cotta via Compfight cc Last week on Fossil Friday we left the land of the vertebrates and met an interesting insect. This winged beauty was a real head-scratcher for the paleo-lovers, but an easy answer for naturalists! The correct answers came…
We are fortunate at NCSE to have a super talented and dedicated staff, like our Communications Director Robert Luhn pictured above, who bend over backwards, and then do handsprings and cartwheels, to make the organization look good. This week we've had a strong presence at the annual…
NCSE's archives house a unique trove of material on the creationism/evolution controversy, and we regard it as part of our mission to preserve it for posterity — as well as for occasions such as Kitzmiller v. Dover, where NCSE's archives helped to establish the creationist antecedents of the "…
This past week, I had the opportunity to dive into piles of fossils at the exhibit hall at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. I was up to my neck in trilobites, coprolites, and polished coral. I figured many of these would be a little too easy for you, especially…
The proliferation of crowdfunding sites on line has allowed creative individuals to get all sorts of projects into public view and to raise funds to carry them out. Of course, this includes educational and scientific projects, and periodically we hear from the creators or supporters of such…
In part 1 of “Conant the Barbarian?” I was discussing a request to help with researching a quotation from James Bryant Conant—a professor of chemistry at and president of Harvard University, and a mover and shaker in the mid-twentieth-century American scientific establishment—which, supposedly,…
There is a joke told about Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger out for a country drive one sunny morning. Heisenberg is pulled over for speeding and the traffic officer asks him, “Sir, do you know how fast you were traveling?” Heisenberg replies, “No, officer, but I know exactly…