Science Is Constantly Evolving

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Polar Bears on the Ark?
So I’m sure you’ve been following all of this Ark Park business going on down in Kentucky. Yes, it is ridiculous, and yes, I have to admit that I was trying desperately to ignore it. As a climate change person here at NCSE, I felt sure I could leave this Ark nonsense to the evolution team.…
Coping with Eliot
I return, with cries of delight, to Hell and the High Schools (1923), T. T. Martin’s unforgettably titled indictment of the teaching of evolution. In previous posts, I’ve discussed chapter 5, “Evolution Repudiated by Great Scientists and Scholars,” which consists, as is usual in…
The Secret Weapon You Never Saw Coming
A 2001 Saturn sedan….what a sweet ride.  That’s my classic American car, which I drive all over the Iowa countryside visiting schools and talking with teachers. And it’s my secret weapon in the battle to get science teachers the support they need to provide our kids with a great education…
Forty Cents a Head
School district to teachers: “Okie dokie, science teachers, here’s your supply budget for the year: 40 cents per student, go for it!” Private foundation to teachers: “No, we can’t give you any extra supply money for your science classroom. Not enough of your students go on to college.” Is there…
What We’re Reading
It’s pretty much all evolution, all the time, this week. Pokémon, humans, creationists, even our understanding of the past—everything evolves. Darwinian Natural Selection is at Work in “Pokémon Sun” and “Moon,” Inverse, August 1, 2016 — Right on the heels of Stephanie Keep’s blog about…
NCSE's Rosenau on Ark Encounter
NCSE's Josh Rosenau contributed a column, under the headline "School field trips to creationist Ark? Sink that idea right now," to New Scientist (August 5, 2016). Describing the landlocked Ark Encounter as "a hard-core creationist extravaganza replete with pseudoscience," Rosenau…
Fine, Let’s Talk about Pokémon
Let me begin by saying that while I’m not a Luddite, I’m also not a technology whiz. I’m one of those less-than-cool people who still use Facebook, have no idea what WhatsApp is, and don’t know which expresses approval—swiping left or swiping right. I recently asked my way-cooler-than-me au…
A new survey on climate change
According to the latest National Surveys on Energy Environment, a twice-yearly survey conducted by the University of Michigan and Muhlenberg College, "Just 15% of Americans say that there is no solid evidence that the Earth is warming, down from 24% a year ago, and the lowest in the NSEE's history…
A Justly Neglected Argument Redivivus
What a joy is William A. Williams’s The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved (1925)! Previously, I’ve discussed its use of a quotation from “Dr. Traas, a famous paleontologist” who supposedly said that the idea that humans descended from any simian species was “certainly the most…

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