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Top ten evolution/creationism stories of the year
PRESS RELEASE   TOP TEN EVOLUTION/CREATIONISM STORIES OF THE YEAR Darwin celebrated; evolution still under attack       Evolution fared well in 2009. The world celebrated the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th of the publication…
Top ten evolution/creationism stories of the year
PRESS RELEASE TOP TEN EVOLUTION/CREATIONISM STORIES OF THE YEAR Darwin celebrated; evolution still under attack Evolution fared well in 2009. The world celebrated the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th of the publication of his On the Origin of…
Lawsuit against science center over creationist film
A lawsuit charges that the California Science Center violated both the First Amendment and a contract to rent its Imax Theater when it canceled a screening of Darwin's Dilemma, the Los Angeles Times (December 29, 2009) reports. The lawsuit was filed by the American Freedom Alliance, a Los Angeles-…
Two end-of-the-year reviews
As 2009 and its celebrations of the bicentennial of Darwin's birth and the sesquicentennial of the publication of the Origin near their end, NCSE is pleased to bid them farewell by offering a peek at two reviews forthcoming in 2010 in Reports of the NCSE. First, David B. Richman reviews Michael…
NCSE's Newton in the Philadelphia Inquirer
NCSE's Steven Newton's op-ed "Science denial is on the rise" appeared in the December 24, 2009, issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer. "From evolution to global warming to vaccines," he wrote, "science is under assault from denialists — those who dismiss well-tested scientific knowledge as merely one…
What Darwin Never Knew
"What Darwin Never Knew" — a NOVA documentary on the burgeoning science of evolutionary developmental biology — will air on December 29, 2009, on public broadcasting stations around the country. According to NOVA: Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000 kinds of birds,…
NCSE and Working Assets/Credo Mobile
There's still time to vote for NCSE, if you're a Working Assets/Credo Mobile customer. NCSE is slated to be a beneficiary of Working Assets/Credo Mobile, the telephone company established "to help busy people make a difference in the world through everyday activities like talking on the phone.…
Visit The Tangled Bank
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of a chapter from Carl Zimmer's latest book, The Tangled Bank (Roberts and Company, 2009). The chapter, "Radiations and Extinctions," addresses biodiversity; Zimmer writes, "In this chapter we'll examine how scientists study biodiversity, analyzing…
Evolution in a new Harris poll
A recent Harris poll included questions on evolution and creationism, with unsurprising results. According to Harris's report (PDF), 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…

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