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The D Word
Recently we sent out an email blast to our members with the subject line: Denial's in the Mail: Who got the denialist mailing?  We are asking people to report on whether they have received a packet from the Heartland Institute: Around Halloween, teachers across America…
Intelligent Design and the Climate
John Wilkins has a nice post up at Evolving Thoughts examining the early uses of the term “intelligent design.” He uses Google n-grams to dig up early uses of the phrase, then examines how people were interpreting the phrase: It is clear from these readings, that the design argument was used in…
A preview of Shaping Humanity
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of John Gurche's Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins (Yale University Press, 2013). The preview consists of chapter 3, "The Impossible Discovery," in which Gurche relates the history of Raymond Dart's…
Not Young-Earth, but Still Creationist
In pondering how many people think the earth is less than 10,000 years old, it’s worth remembering a key and often-ignored fact about creationism: Much creationism isn’t “young-earth” creationism. It’s easy to get hung up on the young-earthers, since they’re so vocal and have such great visuals…
Red Hot or Lukewarm?
Are we heading for a radically altered, roasty-toasty, potentially unlivable planet? Or might we make choices to steer toward a future Earth that is warmer than today but much more livable than the hot-house version? And given such starkly different scenarios, how do we convey the risks and…
Not Exactly Rocket Science
Genie Scott and I share a fondness for the songs of Tom Lehrer, the satirical songwriter of the 1960s. The NCSE holiday party where we were prevailed upon to sing his Christmas carol (“Christmas time is here, by golly, / Disapproval would be folly / Deck the halls with hunks of holly / Fill the cup…
Forty-Five Years after Epperson, Part 1
Today, November 12, 2013, is the forty-fifth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Epperson v. Arkansas, which struck down a state law prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Arkansas’s public schools. The Arkansas law provided: It shall be unlawful for any teacher or other…
Biogeography and Evolution: Two of Wallace’s Legacies
In honor of the 100th anniversary of Alfred Russel Wallace’s death, I thought I’d post an essay I wrote for a special biogeography issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach. Wallace, in addition to being a co-discoverer of evolution through natural selection, is also the father of…
Answer Monday!
Last week, in a desperate attempt to do anything but a skull, I gave you an invertebrate specimen from our planet's past. Who was this delightful shrimp-like creature? It was the infamous Waptia fieldensis from the Burgess Shale in what is now British Columbia. According to the…

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