Science Is Constantly Evolving

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Connecting the Links: Louis Leakey, Olduvai Gorge, and Garniss Curtis
In yesterday’s first post in this occasional series, I mentioned the geological dating of the site of Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania—one of the most significant events in the history of discoveries in the human fossil record, and one which helps to illuminate the nature of creationist…
It Came From Outer Space!
A paper in the less-than-credible Journal of Cosmology claims to present evidence of life entering earth’s atmosphere from space. Phil Plait examines and nicely debunks the details, but there’s a creationist angle here, and even a link to climate science, and that’s as good an excuse as…
Connecting the Links: Introduction
This will be the first of an occasional series of posts dealing with human evolution, the history of paleoanthropology, and their relationship to NCSE’s mission to defend the teaching of evolution and climate change in the public schools. There is at least one very good reason why so many…
NCSE's latest in Evolution: Education and Outreach
"Peking, Piltdown, and Paluxy: Creationist Legends about Paleoanthropology" (PDF), by NCSE's Glenn Branch and Eugenie C. Scott, was just published in Evolution: Education and Outreach. The abstract of their article: "Because human evolution is often a stumbling block for accepting evolution,…
What’s Wrong with “Belief in Evolution”? Part 1
Over at the PLOS Sci-Ed blog, Adam Blankenblicker recently reported, “I asked one of my colleagues at work, Dr. Briana Pobiner, a paleoanthropologist, ‘You believe in evolution, right?’ I was surprised by how quickly she answered ‘I don’t believe in evolution—I accept the evidence for evolution…
Climate Confusion in the Buckeye State
The good people of Ohio seem to be as concerned as most people in the United States about climate change, mostly agreeing that it is happening and something should be done about it. But they are also more confused on the basics—whether it is mainly human or naturally caused, and whether…
Polling climate in Texas
Seventy percent of Texans accept that global warming is happening, according to a new report (PDF) from the Yale Project on Climate Communication. But less than half accept that human activity is responsible for global warming, and more than half deny that there is a consensus…
NCSE's Scott and Berbeco in Scientific American
Writing in Scientific American, NCSE's Eugenie C. Scott and Minda Berbeco warn that "a move is afoot to keep climate science out of classrooms." As they note, "objections to the theory of evolution have bedeviled individual teachers, school boards, state boards of education and state…
Fossil Friday, Monday Answer!
  By WolfmanSF (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons Last week on Fossil Friday, I gave you a stinky specimen to identify. Why stinky? Well this one was quickly identified by our online friends as coming from the La Brea tar pits. And though it was pulled…

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