Science Is Constantly Evolving

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Philosophers, creationists, and serious brainiacs
NCSE's deputy director Glenn Branch's review of the updated edition of But Is It Science? The Philosophical Question in the Creation/Evolution Controversy (Prometheus Books, 2009) appeared in eSkeptic for August 12, 2009. The review concluded: But Is It Science? is evidently intended as a…
Evolving standards
How is evolution faring in state science education standards? NCSE's Louise S. Mead and Anton Mates pored over the latest standards in all fifty states. In a new study forthcoming in the journal Evolution: Education and Outreach, they report, "The treatment of biological evolution in state science…
Creation/Evolution now available on-line
NCSE is pleased to announce that the complete run of Creation/Evolution is now available in PDF form on the NCSE website. Published from 1980 to 1996, Creation/Evolution was the leading source of information about and criticism of the creationist movement through that momentous period, which saw…
Dinosaur Adventure Land to be seized?
Dinosaur Adventure Land, Kent Hovind's creationist theme park in Pensacola, Florida, is to be seized by the federal government, the Pensacola News Journal (July 31, 2009) reported. In November 2006, a federal jury found Hovind guilty of fifty-eight charges, including failing to pay payroll taxes…
Genie's summer reading
The journal Nature (2009; 460: 574-577) asked a number of scientists — including NCSE's Eugenie C. Scott — for their recommendations for summer reading. Scott picked Mark Pallen's The Rough Guide to Evolution (Rough Guides, 2009), writing that Pallen "provides a concise summary of what you need to…
NCSE's Grand Canyon Trip 2009
July 3 - 10, 2009 Grand Canyon 2009 Back Row (left to right): Connie C. Barlow, Ron Williams, Tim Aaronson, Jean Keane, Mitch Waldrop, Steven Newton, Mike Keane, Daniel Brzovic, Wayne Robinson, Tom Freeman, Eugenie Scott, Michael Dowd, Rebecca Mattison, Peter…
Sean B. Carroll to receive prize from SDB
Sean B. CarrollNCSE Supporter Sean B. Carroll is to be awarded the Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize for 2009 from the Society for Developmental Biology, at the society's sixty-eighth annual meeting, held July 23-27, 2009, in San Francisco. Carroll, Professor of…
Historians misrepresented by creationists
Three historians of science are unhappy about their treatment in a creationist movie about Darwin, as they explain in a note in the July 2009 Newsletter of the History of Science Society. Peter Bowler, Janet Browne, and Sandra Herbert write, "We have recently been featured in a documentary film, '…
Eugenie C. Scott interviewed in Science News
NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott was interviewed by Science News about the need for scientists to watch their language when talking about evolution and the nature of science. "What your audience hears is more important than what you say," she observed, recommending, for example, that…

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