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Hijacking the Ark: Do Creationists Own the "Noah" Story?
We humans are natural storytellers. For tens of thousands of years we have told and retold stories around campfires and in royal chambers and religious gatherings, in genres ranging from song to poetry, from performance to film. Many of the stories significant enough to survive history’s winnowing…
Congratulations to Kenneth R. Miller
Kenneth R. Miller NCSE is pleased  to congratulate Kenneth R. Miller, who will receive the University of Notre Dame's Laetare Medal for 2014. According to a March 30, 2014, press release from the university, the award, established in 1883, is "the oldest and most prestigious…
Answer Monday!
Photo Credit: mikebaird via Compfight cc Last week I shared a whale of a tale of a fossil...of a whale!  What was that jumble of bones you saw?  Why, it's a baby whale from the very famous "Valley of the Whales", a UNESCO Heritage Site in Egypt. The photo was snapped by my…
Digging into the Diggers’ Dispute
Charlie Oredigger, the Montana Tech mascot, taking a swing at creationism. In 1999, President Clinton spoke at the commencement at my university. For various reasons, students at both ends of the political spectrum were uncomfortable having him at their commencement, and there were vigorous…
Fossil Friday!
This week on the Fossil Friday, I take you outside of the museum...many thousands of miles away, to an actual site in the desert. Josh Rosenau here at NCSE snapped this photo when he was traveling...where? I can't tell you! What is it? That is for you to figure out! For…
Dr. Etheridge, Fossilologist, Part 4
I’m still discussing a well-known but ill-sourced quotation from a “Dr. Etheridge, Fossilologist of the British Museum,” according to which, “Nine-tenths of the talk of evolutionists is sheer nonsense, not founded on observation and wholly unsupported by fact. This museum is full of proofs of…
Congratulations to Zack Kopplin
Zack Kopplin NCSE is delighted to congratulate Zack Kopplin, recently named as the winner of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's 2014 Howard K. Schachman Public Service Award. In a March 24, 2014, press release, Jeremy Berg, president of the ASBMB and…
The Messenger
Halley's comet, Bayeux Tapestry by boris doesborg, released under a CC-BY-NC license In 1705, Edmund Halley predicted the course and eventual return of his eponymous comet, and traced its past appearances (it is depicted in the Bayeux tapestry and was re-observed in 1758). Comets then were also…
NCSE's next webinar for activists
NCSE is pleased to announce the next of a new series of on-line workshops aimed at broadening and deepening the networks that make our work possible. The next workshop focuses on building coalitions to support science education, especially evolution and climate education, which include religious…

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