Science Is Constantly Evolving

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Evolution at Rockefeller now on-line
Beginning with the molecular origins of life and culminating with the latest findings on human evolution, eighteen of the world's leading experts reported on research spanning three billion years of evolution at a two-day symposium at Rockefeller University on May 1 and 2, 2008. Videos from the "…
NCSE videos about creationism heat up debate on YouTube
  Next entry looks at attacks on science education around the country   Oakland, California, April 23, 2008 -- "Teacher Expelled Over Religion," the first in a series of videos produced by the National Center for Science Education, is currently among the most-watched and most…
"Evolution and Creationism in America's Classrooms"
A noteworthy new paper reports on a national survey of high school biology teachers concerning the teaching of evolution. According to Michael B. Berkman, Julianna Sandell Pacheco, and Eric Plutzer's "Evolution and Creationism in America's Classrooms: A National Portrait," published on…
NCSE video released "Expelled for Real"
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Creationism's evolution, caught on tape
  A nonprofit's archives track the rise and fall of attacks on evolution   Oakland, California, May 20, 2008 ─ Evolution's opponents have taken another round of losses recently, with the failures of the creationist propaganda movie Expelled, a creationist bid to…
NCSE Archives
The NCSE Archives holds the administrative records of the NCSE. These records serve to document the efforts of the NCSE in its goal of supporting the continued teaching of evolution, climate science, and science as a way of knowing. In addition, the Archives assembles materials of historical,…
Creationism's evolution, caught on tape
A nonprofit's archives track the rise and fall of attacks on evolution Oakland, California, May 20, 2008 ─ Evolution's opponents have taken another round of losses recently, with the failures of the creationist propaganda movie Expelled, a creationist bid to grant science…
Missouri antievolution bill dies
When the Missouri legislative session ended on May 16, 2008, House Bill 2554 died, although it was passed by the House Committee on Elementary and Secondary Education on April 30, 2008. If enacted, the bill would have called on state and local education administrators to "endeavor to create an…
Expelled excoriated
Writing in the Boston Globe (May 8, 2008), Kenneth R. Miller blasts the creationist propaganda film Expelled, writing, "American science is in trouble, and if you wonder why, just go to the movies. Popular culture is gradually turning against science, and Ben Stein's new…

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