Tuesday, April 13, 2010

NCSE | National Center for Science Education - Defending the Teaching of Evolution in Public Schools.

NCSE | National Center for Science Education - Defending the Teaching of Evolution in Public Schools.

Latest News

Evangelical scholar expelled over evolution

Bruce WaltkeBruce Waltke
A noted evangelical Old Testament scholar resigned from his faculty position at a seminary in the wake of a controversy over his public acceptance of evolution.

What happened to evolution at the NSB?


A section describing survey results about the American public's beliefs about evolution and the Big Bang was removed from the 2010 edition ofScience and Engineering Indicators.

Twofold congratulations for Sean B. Carroll

Sean B. CarrollSean B. Carroll
NCSE congratulates Sean B. Carroll for winning the 2010 Stephen Jay Gould Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution (to be awarded at the SSE meeting in Portland, Oregon, in June 2010) and for becoming the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's vice president for science education (beginning in September 2010).

For your watching and listening pleasure


NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott was interviewed at the University of Notre Dame in September 2009 about ways of teaching evolution effectively — and now a video of the interview is available on NCSE's YouTube channel.

A peek at Evolution


NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Douglas Palmer's Evolution: The Story of Life(University of California