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A preview of Debating Darwin
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Robert J. Richards and Michael Ruse's Debating Darwin (University of Chicago Press, 2016). The preview consists of the epilogue in which, after debating the interpretation of Darwin for the majority of the book, Richards and Ruse join…
For a few lucky teachers, an adventure of a lifetime
The National Center for Science Education is pleased to accept applications for its third class of Grand Canyon Teacher Scholars. Lucky teachers will be given an all-expenses-paid seat on NCSE's annual Grand Canyon expedition, an eight-day voyage through some of the world's greatest geological…
Paley the Plagiarist?
The example of the watch in William Paley’s Natural Theology (1802) is famous. A stone found on a heath, Paley explains, seems not to require any explanation, but a watch, with its component parts apparently designed to perform a function, demands to be explained, and explained, moreover…
Huston Smith dies
The eminent scholar of religion Huston Smith died on December 30, 2016, at the age of 97, according to The New York Times (January 1, 2017). Smith, as the Times observes, was best known for his textbook The Religions of Man (1958), later abridged and retitled The…
Santer profiled in the Los Angeles Times
Ben Santer, a noted climate researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a member of NCSE's board of directors, was profiled in the Los Angeles Times (December 30, 2016), under the headline "Can a federal government scientist in California convince Trump that climate change is…
Polling climate change at the end of 2016
A poll conducted by YouGov for The Economist posed (PDF, p. 52) the following question: "On the subject of climate change do you think: (A) The world's climate is changing as a result of human activity; (B) The world's climate is changing but NOT because of human activity; (C) The world's…
Who Was Warren Allem?
In “Evolution in the Back Seat,” I mentioned Warren Allem’s 1959 University of Tennessee, Knoxville master’s thesis, “Backgrounds of the Scopes Trial at Dayton, Tennessee.” Allem’s thesis is well worth a read, I think, if you’re interested in the Scopes trial, especially because it’s freely…
Happy 11th Kitzmas!
A beloved holiday tradition returns.’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…
NCSE’s Science Booster Clubs: Looking Back on 2016 and Forward to 2017
2016 was a pretty intense year for NCSE’s Science Booster Club program. We explored lots of new ways to engage with people, and managed to reach over 54,000 people in Iowa in person with our hands-on evolution and climate change activities. In December 2016, we’ve been engaged in a big push for…

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