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Update on the ark park
The controversy continues over the prospect of state tourism development incentives for Ark Encounter, the proposed creationist theme park in northern Kentucky. According to the Louisville Courier-Journal (December 1, 2010), "Ark Encounter, which will feature a 500-foot-long wooden replica of Noah…
Kitzmas cheer in the Philly Inquirer
Kitzmiller in press scrumThe Philadelphia Inquirer (December 20, 2010) commemorated the fifth anniversary of the verdict in Kitzmiller v. Dover, the case establishing the unconstitutionality of teaching "intelligent design" in the public schools, with a review of the trial and its…
Top Ten Evolution Stories of 2010
Those crafty creationists just won't let up. Since they can't get their way in the courts or state legislatures, their new tactic is to attack the curriculum itself, from science standards to textbooks, forcing teachers to teach science the creationist way. In Texas, for example, a creo-…
A new Gallup poll on evolution
A new Gallup poll on public opinion about evolution hints at a slightly higher rate of acceptance of evolution in the United States over the years. Asked in December 2010 "[w]hich of the following statements comes closest to your views on the origin and development of human beings," 38% of the…
Beginning to look a lot like Kitzmas
Kitzmiller in press scrumFive years after the verdict in Kitzmiller v. Dover, the case establishing the unconstitutionality of teaching "intelligent design" in the public schools, the York Dispatch (December 17, 2010) marked the anniversary with a review of the trial and its…
"Molecular Insights" videos on-line
Sean CarrollVideos from "Molecular Insights into Classic Examples of Evolution" — the Evolution Symposium at the National Association of Biology Teachers conference for 2010 — are now available on-line! Featured are four exciting speakers whose research in molecular evolution is…
"Evolution and its rivals"
"Evolution and its rivals" — a special issue of the philosophy journal Synthese focused on the creationism/evolution controversy — was just published. Coedited by Glenn Branch, NCSE's deputy director, and James H. Fetzer, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, the…
Creationism at issue in employment dispute?
"No one denies that astronomer Martin Gaskell was the leading candidate for the founding director of a new observatory at the University of Kentucky in 2007 — until his writings on evolution came to light," reports the Louisville Courier-Journal (December 10, 2010). "Gaskell had given lectures to…
Catching up with RNCSE
Selected content from volume 30, number 4, of Reports of the National Center for Science Education is now available on NCSE's website. Featured is Phil Senter's "Vestigial Structures Exist Even Within the Creationist Paradigm" as well as the text of two talks delivered by NCSE's Eugenie C. Scott…

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