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Goliath in the Peloponnese
A recent letter from John R. Armstrong, a long-time member of NCSE in Edmonton, Canada, included, without comment, a sheaf of interesting documents (which appear also on David Emery’s About.com Urban Legends website). The first was a computer-generated map, in modern Greek, of the Peloponnese,…
A new Pew poll on evolution
Six in ten Americans accept human evolution, while a third hold that humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. Asked, "Which comes closer to your view?" and presented with "Humans…
Ian Barbour dies
The distinguished scholar of science and religion Ian Barbour died on December 24, 2013, at the age of 90, according to Carleton College (December 27, 2013). Often credited with founding the academic field of science and religion, Barbour was the author of Religion in an Age of Science…
A milestone for NCSE's archives
NCSE's archives now contain three thousand books! The lucky 3000th book in NCSE's collection is Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem, edited by Massimo Pigliucci and Maarten Boudry (University of Chicago Press, 2013). As it happens, the book contains…
NCSE thanks its Supporting Organizations
As 2013 draws to a close, NCSE would like to thank its Supporting Organizations for their generous assistance during the year. The current Supporting Organizations of NCSE are the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of…
Censoring Evolution in the Senate?
I was reading Edward Caudill’s Intelligently Designed: How Creationists Built the Campaign against Evolution (2013) recently. I won’t say a lot about it here, because I’ve just sent a review of it to a magazine, but I’ll quote my description of it: “Edward Caudill contends that his …
Creationism and Evolution in 1001 Ideas
I don’t spend all of my time working at NCSE. Once in a while, I moonlight. The fruits of a moonlighting stint recently arrived: a chunky volume entitled 1001 Ideas that Changed the Way We Think (2013), edited by Robert Arp. In his introduction, Arp explains that the book contains “1,001…
Kitzmas Haiku
Last  Friday was the eighth anniversary of “Kitzmas,” the December, 20, 2005 ruling in the Kitzmiller v. Dover case involving “intelligent design” creationism. Unless you’ve just stepped off the Beagle from your epic eight-year round-the-world expedition, you know that this ruling…
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 …

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