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Answer Monday!
Photo Credit: GANDALF_GREY via Compfight cc This last week, I gave you a tricky fossil with the most basic of questions: was it animal, vegetable or mineral? Well, obviously mineral at this point, but when it was once alive, this little puffball was actually a now-extinct stingray! This …
Happy 8th Kitzmas!
’Twas the night before Kitzmas and all through the land, No creationist was stirring, not even Ken Ham; The briefs had been drafted and filed with great care, In hopes that Judge Jones’s decision’d be fair; The plaintiffs were nestled all snug in their beds, While Bill of Rights visions ran round…
Fossil Friday!
I encountered this week's fossil at the AGU conference in San Francisco.  I love this peculiar specimen!  Is it a plant?  A seed?  An animal?  A fungus? Can you guess which era it dates from?  When you take a good look at it, the answer is so obvious it might…
Climate Change: Upping the Ante for Environmental Refugees
In mid-October three hundred people drowned when an overcrowded fishing boat sank offshore from the small Italian island of Lampedusa, midway between Malta and the North African coast of Tunisia. These were emigrants from northern and sub-Saharan Africa seeking a better life in Europe. Living…
The Mysterious Mr. Moore, Part 2
In part 1, I related the prepublication history of Robert A. Moore’s “The Impossible Voyage of Noah’s Ark,” which originally appeared in Creation/Evolution 4:1 in 1983 and which, even thirty years later, is one of NCSE’s most frequently cited and used resources. Moore originally…
Evolution in a new Harris poll
A recent Harris poll addressed evolution and creationism, with unsurprising results. Those surveyed were given a list of topics — including God, miracles, heaven, Jesus as God or the son of God, angels, survival of the soul after death, the resurrection of Jesus, Hell, the virgin birth, the…
Action in Climate Education: A Step Too Far?
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…
The Mysterious Mr. Moore, Part 1
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…
Answer Monday!
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…

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