Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
Photograph by Steve Newton Congrats! You survived the month-long Day of the Dead Skull-a-thon. In celebration of our first non-skull Fossil Friday in a long time, I decided to go non-vertebrate...or rather, invertebrate, as some might say. Who was this lucky fellow?…
A friend e-mailed the other day wondering just how many people in the United States are young-earth creationists. The answer begins with a question the Gallup poll has been asking since the early ’80s: Which of the following statements comes closest to your views on the origin and development…
Genie Scott to retire; Ann Reid to take the reins Ann Reid is joining NCSE as Executive Director, starting January 2, 2014. She will replace Eugenie C. Scott, who has led NCSE in fighting the good fight for science education for 27 years. As a molecular biologist at the Armed Forces…
Image: bibliomaniac15 via Compfight cc Last week, one of our fabulous NCSE interns discovered a—shall we say, interesting?—article on both evolution and climate change from none other than the Institute for Creation Research. The article discussed research by scientists at the…
Update: The survey described below reflects the input from a group of self-selected educators, not a randomized sample. A more robust national survey to determine whether, where, and how climate and global change topics are being taught is much needed, but until such a survey is deployed, the…
Stefaan Blancke, a postdoctoral researcher in the department of philosophy and moral sciences at Ghent University in Belgium, and the lead author of “Creationism in Europe: Facts, Gaps, and Prospects,” is here to answer a few questions about the article, as described in part 1.…
In honor of the centenary of the death of Alfred Russel Wallace, NCSE is pleased to list a number of on-line resources on Wallace's life and work. Wallace Online curated by John van Wyhe The Wallace Correspondence Project directed by George Beccaloni The Alfred Russel…
A milestone: there are now over 30,000 fans of NCSE's Facebook page. Why not join them, by visiting the page and becoming a fan by clicking on the "Like" box by NCSE's name? You'll receive the latest NCSE news delivered straight to your Facebook Home page, as well as updates on evolution-related…
You would be surprised how hard it is to light a candy bar on fire. Last week I had an inspiring adventure in middle school science education: I was invited to help my son Robert and his classmates burn food for science. Robert is an eighth grader at a Roman Catholic school in Berkeley…