Science Is Constantly Evolving

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Lights! Camera! Evolve!
The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) is expanding its online video presence with its new YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/NatCen4ScienceEd. Here you'll find reports from the evolution/creationism wars—footage of contentious testimony, landmark and illuminating speeches,…
Updates from the Lone Star state
With evolution sure to be a hotly debated topic at the next meeting of the Texas state board of education, with a bill just introduced in the Texas legislature aimed at restoring the contentious "strengths and weaknesses" language to the standards, and with a different bill aimed at exempting the…
Legislative salvation for the ICR?
House Bill 2800 (PDF), introduced in the Texas House of Representatives on March 9, 2009, would, if enacted, in effect exempt institutions such as the Institute for Creation Research's graduate school from Texas's regulations governing degree-granting institutions. The bill's sole sponsor is Leo…
Creationist board chair profiled
As the final vote on the proposed revision of the Texas state science standards approaches, the Austin American-Statesman (March 8, 2009) offers a profile of the chair of the Texas state board of education, avowed creationist Don McLeroy. Describing his conversion to fundamentalism as a dental…
Contacting the SBOE and Analysis of Proposed Texas Educational Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) Amendments
How to Contact Your SBOE Member Identifying Your School Board Member: Go to http://www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us/ On the line “District Type” select “State Board of Education” Type in your address and this will identify which board member represents you. Writing Your School Board Member…
Journals celebrating the Darwin anniversaries
Scientific and educational journals are continuing to celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Darwin and the sesquicentennial of the publication of the Origin of Species. As NCSE previously reported, Science is allocating a special section of its website to "a variety of news features,…
Project Steve: n > 1000
Steve Darwin: The 1000th SteveWith the addition of Steve #1000 on February 12, 2009, NCSE's Project Steve attained the kilosteve mark. A tongue-in-cheek parody of the long-standing creationist tradition of amassing lists of "scientists who doubt evolution" or "scientists who…
New book, free chapter!
Want to own a piece of Evolution vs. Creationism, 2nd Edition? Now's your chance. For a limited time, we've posted a sample chapter from the book in PDF. It's yours to download, read, print out, and share with others. To get the chapter, click here (PDF). Interested in learning more — or…
Call for Papers: Teaching Evolution in the Classroom
The Journal of Effective Teaching, a peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to the discussion of teaching excellence in colleges and universities, is calling (PDF) for papers for a special issue on the teaching of evolution in a university setting. Topics may include Darwinism in the history and…

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