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Polling climate in Canada
What do Canadians think about climate change? "Relative to respondents in the U.S., Canadians are more convinced that climate change is occurring, more concerned about it, and more willing to pay to address the issue," according to a researcher quoted in a November 6, 2013, press release from…
Fossil Friday!
Photograph by Steve Newton   Congrats! You survived the month-long Day of the Dead Skull-a-thon. In celebration of our first non-skull Fossil Friday in a long time, I decided to go non-vertebrate...or rather, invertebrate, as some might say. Who was this lucky fellow?…
Just How Many Young-Earth Creationists Are There in the U.S.?
A friend e-mailed the other day wondering just how many people in the United States are young-earth creationists. The answer begins with a question the Gallup poll has been asking since the early ’80s: Which of the following statements comes closest to your views on the origin and development…
NCSE Announces New Executive Director
Genie Scott to retire; Ann Reid to take the reins Ann Reid is joining NCSE as Executive Director, starting January 2, 2014. She will replace Eugenie C. Scott, who has led NCSE in fighting the good fight for science education for 27 years. As a molecular biologist at the Armed Forces…
Failing the Acid Test
Image: bibliomaniac15 via Compfight cc Last week, one of our fabulous NCSE interns discovered a—shall we say, interesting?—article on both evolution and climate change from none other than the Institute for Creation Research. The article discussed research by scientists at the…
VIP: Very Important Priority
Update: The survey described below reflects the input from a group of self-selected educators, not a randomized sample. A more robust national survey to determine whether, where, and how climate and global change topics are being taught is much needed, but until such a survey is deployed, the…
Creationism in Europe, Part 2
Stefaan Blancke, a postdoctoral researcher in the department of philosophy and moral sciences at Ghent University in Belgium, and the lead author of “Creationism in Europe: Facts, Gaps, and Prospects,” is here to answer a few questions about the article, as described in part 1.…
Wallaceana!
In honor of the centenary of the death of Alfred Russel Wallace, NCSE is pleased to list a number of on-line resources on Wallace's life and work. Wallace Online curated by John van Wyhe The Wallace Correspondence Project directed by George Beccaloni The Alfred Russel…
NCSE on Facebook: n > 30,000
A milestone: there are now over 30,000 fans of NCSE's Facebook page. Why not join them, by visiting the page and becoming a fan by clicking on the "Like" box by NCSE's name? You'll receive the latest NCSE news delivered straight to your Facebook Home page, as well as updates on evolution-related…

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