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The latest Gallup poll on evolution
A new Gallup poll on public opinion about evolution suggests that the rate of acceptance of evolution in the United States is "essentially unchanged" over the years. Asked in May 2012 "[w]hich of the following statements comes closest to your views on the origin and development of human beings,"…
A preview of Masters of the Planet
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Ian Tattersall's Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). The excerpt consists of chapter 10, "Who Were the Neanderthals?" Tattertall writes, "Homo neanderthalensis occupies a very special place…
NCSE and the Grand Canyon 2012
Explore the Grand Canyon with NCSE! Only two seats are still available for NCSE's next excursion to the Grand Canyon — as featured in the documentary No Dinosaurs in Heaven. From July 16 to 24, 2012, NCSE will again explore the wonders of creation and evolution on a Grand Canyon river run…
First Amendment award for Kopplin
Zack KopplinNCSE is delighted to congratulate Zack Kopplin, the leader of the effort to repeal the so-called Louisiana Science Education Act, on his receiving the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award. According to a press release from the Playboy Foundation quoted by the…
Private school scholarships "a boon to creationism"?
Private school scholarship programs "have been twisted to benefit private schools at the expense of the neediest children," according to The New York Times (May 22, 2012) — and part of the problem involves the teaching of creationism. At issue are programs in eight states that allow taxpayers to…
Climate change in the American mind: March 2012
The latest survey on the American public's beliefs and attitudes regarding global warming offers few surprises. "Overall," the executive summary of Climate Change in the American Mind: Americans' Global Warming Beliefs and Attitudes in March 2012 summarizes (PDF), "Americans' beliefs and attitudes…
NGSS, take one
The first public draft of the Next Generation Science Standards is available on-line — and your feedback is invited. The Next Generation Science Standards are intended to be "rich in content and practice, arranged in a coherent manner across disciplines and grades to provide all students an…
A preview of Hot
NCSE is pleased to offer a preview (PDF) of Mark Hertsgaard's Hot: Living through the Next Fifty Years on Earth (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011). The preview consists of the first part of chapter four, "Ask the Climate Question," in which Hertsgaard reports on his 2008 interview with the chief…
A chance to help NCSE's archives!
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 "…

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