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AAAS: "Intelligent Design" Not Smart for Science Classes
The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific organization, recently announced the top ten key science and technology policy issues to emerge in 2002. Among them: 5) INTELLIGENT DESIGN--NOT SMART FOR SCIENCE CLASSES: Efforts to kick the…
AIG Analyzes ID
Stating some of the same criticisms NCSE has raised about Intelligent Design, Carl Wieland of the young-earth creationist organization Answers in Genesis (AiG), criticizes the ID movement for not having a “‘story of the past” – of lacking a coherent narrative of “what happened”, and focusing only…
An Open Letter to the Ohio Citizens for Science
by Eugenie C. Scott Dear Ohio Citizens for Science, Well, you did it. Ohio now has standards that for the first time direct Ohio teachers to teach evolution, across all scientific disciplines. Both the writing team and all of the activists who defended evolution’s inclusion get our thanks.…
State Board Adopts Standards, Rejects Intelligent Design
On December 10 the Ohio Board of Education unanimously voted to adopt new science standards which will guide public school curriculum and testing across the state. For the first time Ohio's standards will explicitly include the concept of evolution. Local supporters of science education…
UFO Group Supports Intelligent Design
A press release dated November 15 issued by the Raelian Movement, a movement that advocates the belief that life on earth was created by extraterrestrials, affirms the movement’s support for the intelligent design movement. The press release states “[t]he Raelian Movement supports the Intelligent…
AAAS Releases Statement on Intelligent Design
The board of directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) released a "Resolution on Intelligent Design Theory" that states, in part, that Whereas, the ID movement has failed to offer credible scientific evidence to support their claim that ID undermines the…
Science Standards Move Forward
The Board of Education in Ohio is preparing to approve new state standards for public school science classes. Proposed standards were approved by the Standards Committee on October 14, 2002 and forwarded to the full board for consideration and adoption before the end of the year. The topic of…
Scott Receives Teacher Association Award
Dr. Eugenie C. Scott, Executive Director of NCSE, was awarded the California Science Teachers Association Margaret Nicholson Distinguished Service Award at the CSTA's annual meeting in San Francisco on October 25, 2002. The CSTA's highest honor, the citation commemorates Scott "in…
Survey of Scientists Supports Evolution, Rejects "Intelligent Design"
A survey of Ohio university scientists shows that they overwhelmingly view "intelligent design" as a religious, not a scientific, concept. The survey was conducted by faculty at Case Western Reserve University and the University of Cincinnati, and results were announced at a press conference on…

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