Science Is Constantly Evolving
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"Five US states have adopted science education standards that recommend introducing two highly charged topics — climate-change science and evolution — into classrooms well before high school," reports Nature (July 3, 2013). Maryland and Vermont became the fourth and fifth states to adopt the Next…
Eugenie C. ScottNCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott was interviewed by Inside Climate News (July 2, 2013). "As America's debate about global warming became politicized over the past half-decade, the controversy entered a new battleground: the nation's classrooms," the…
Writing in APS News (June 2013), Zehra Sayers and Zuhal Özcan address the state of evolution education in Turkey — and the news is not good. "[C]overage of evolution in curricula is influenced strongly by national political trends" in the country, they explain: "as populist religious rhetoric in…
Eugenie C. ScottNCSE is pleased to announce the addition of a further batch of videos to NCSE's YouTube channel. Especially noteworthy are Eugenie C. Scott speaking on "Déjà vu all over again" at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 2013 and on "Creationism du jour" and in a…
Judy ScotchmoorNCSE congratulates Judy Scotchmoor for winning the 2013 Stephen Jay Gould Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution. The Director of Education and Public Programs at the University of California Museum of Paleontology, Scotchmoor is a long-time member of…
Bill McKibbenNCSE offers its belated congratulations to Bill McKibben on winning the Sophie Prize, "established to inspire people working towards a sustainable future," for 2013, in recognition of his efforts to combat climate change. According to a press release dated May 27,…
NCSE's archives house a unique trove of material on the creationism/evolution controversy, and we regard it as part of our mission to preserve it for posterity — as well as for occasions such as Kitzmiller v. Dover, where NCSE's archives helped to establish the creationist antecedents of the "…
The chorus of support for the teaching of evolution continues, with statements from two biology departments at universities in Oklahoma. The Department of Biology at the University of Central Oklahoma's statement in part reads (PDF), "Evolution is defined simply as the change in allele…
Barbara Forrest, Philip Kitcher, and Michael Ruse are among the scholars contributing to a symposium on "Democracy and Science" published in the journal Logos — which seeks to foster a critical dialogue on modern politics, culture, and society — and available on-line. Forrest, in "Rejecting the…