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Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution adds its voice for evolution
The chorus of support for the teaching of evolution continues, with a statement from the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, which works to promote the study of ecology and evolution in Canada and to raise public awareness of the importance of ecology and evolution to Canadian society.…
A preview of Merchants of Doubt
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway's Merchants of Doubt (Bloomsbury Press, 2010). The preview consists of chapter 6, "The Denial of Global Warming," which describes how public skepticism about global warming was fomented by "a small network of doubt-…
New photographs from the Scopes trial
Supporters of Scopes, 1925 In honor of the anniversary of the Scopes trial, which ran from July 10 to July 21, 1925, the Smithsonian Institution Archives just released a new set of twenty-five portraits of scientists who agreed to testify on behalf of the defense, according to a…
RNCSE 31:3 now on-line
NCSE is pleased to announce the third issue of Reports of the National Center for Science Education in its new on-line format. The issue — volume 31, number 3 — features Phil Senter's "The Defeat of Flood Geology by Flood Geology," which concludes, "Flood Geology began in order to find support for…
Update from the Granite State
A columnist for the Nashua Telegraph (July 3, 2011) discusses the two antievolution bills on the horizon in New Hampshire. As NCSE previously reported, two requests to have antievolution bills drafted for the 2012 legislative session were included on a list of legislative service requests dated…
"Creationism Crusade" in Church & State
Rob Boston's "Creationism Crusade," published in the July/August 2011 issue of Church & State, reviews the latest battles, in state legislatures and elsewhere, over the teaching of evolution. The antievolution bills in Tennessee — House Bill 368, which passed the Tennessee House of…
Announcing a bumper sticker contest!
It's time to sharpen your pencils, cudgel your brains, and consult your muse: NCSE is running a bumper sticker contest! This is your chance to speak loud, speak proud for evolution, by crafting a killer slogan that could end up on the tail end of thousands of cars. The aim of this mobile message:…
Bumper Sticker Contest!
  Announcing NCSE's Bumper Sticker Contest!   Our classic bumper stickers... "Evolutionists do it with increasing complexity" "Honk! If you understand punctuated equilibria" ...will remain in the lineup. But it's time to bring some new players onto the field. This is your chance…
Polling global evangelical leaders on evolution
A survey of the opinions of evangelical Protestant leaders across the world, conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, included a question on evolution — and found that the leaders were divided. According to the executive summary of the Pew Forum's report, "Slightly more reject the…

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