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NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Christopher Wills's The Darwinian Tourist: Viewing the World Through Evolutionary Eyes (Oxford University Press, 2010). The excerpt, chapter 1, takes a dive in Indonesia's Lembeh Strait as the chance to introduce the concept of common descent. Wills…
Kenneth R. MillerNCSE congratulates Kenneth R. Miller for winning the 2011 Stephen Jay Gould Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution. Professor of Biology and Royce Family Professor for Teaching Excellence at Brown University, Miller is a Supporter of NCSE as well as a…
A new poll conducted by Ipsos for Reuters News in twenty-four countries found that 41% of respondents identified themselves as "evolutionists" and 28% as "creationists," with 31% indicating that they "simply don't know what to believe," according to a press release issued by Ipsos on April 25,…
Explore the Grand Canyon with Scott, Newton, and Gish! Seats are still available for NCSE's next excursion to the Grand Canyon — as featured in The New York Times (October 6, 2005). From June 30 to July 8, 2011, NCSE will again explore the wonders of creation and evolution on a Grand Canyon river…
NCSE is pleased at last to announce the first issue of Reports of the National Center for Science Education in its new on-line format. The issue — volume 31, number 1 — includes Michael A. Buratovich's "Recent Advances on the Origin of Life — Making Biological Polymers"; Kevin C. Armitage's "How…
Sixteen percent of respondents to a recent poll agreed that books that discuss evolution should be banned from school libraries. According to a press release issued on April 12, 2011, by Harris Interactive, agreement was more prevalent among respondents over 65 (26%), with only a high school…
Eugenie C. ScottNCSE is pleased to announce the addition of a further batch of videos to NCSE's YouTube channel. NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott describes "The evolution of creationism" at the Houston Museum of Natural Science in 2009; "Creationist tactics in…
This has been a busy year for creationists. Since January, anti-science legislators in seven states have proposed nine bills attacking evolution and evolution education. Many are so-called "academic freedom" bills, like Tennessee's HB 368, which allows teachers to "help students understand,…
The chorus of support for the teaching of evolution continues, with statements from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the Saint Louis Science Center, and the Utah Museum of Natural History. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's statement reads, "Evolutionary…