Showing posts with label NCSE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NCSE. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Meanwhile, in Indiana

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From the NCSE comes a story of new legislation being pushed in Indiana that would require public schools to teach young earth creationism. ...
Thursday, October 05, 2017

NCSE Post Reflecting on Kitzmiller, Twelve Years Later, by Eugenie Scott

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NCSE has a guest post by Eugenie Scott, in which she remembers some of the points about Kitzmiller that might not have been public at the t...
Monday, January 23, 2017

Stealth Bill in Oklahoma

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Another &ldauo;strenghts and weaknesses” bill has been put forth in Oklahoma. NCSE has the story : Senate Bill 393 (PDF), styled th...
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Tuesday, August 09, 2016

PJ Media Takes on NPR on Science and Completely Misses the Point

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Science is not a democratic exercise.  There is either scientific support for a theory or there is not.  If there are competing views about ...
Friday, July 22, 2016

Lauren Saville: The Importance of Teaching Human Evolution

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Lauren Saville has written a post for NCSE titled "The Importance of Teaching Evolution."  Inevitably, the post deals not just wi...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Ken Ham, Evolutionary Creationism and Reality, Part II

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As I mentioned a few days ago in a post on Ken Ham's attack on evolutionary creationists, the thrust of his argument is that Christians ...
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Saturday, April 16, 2016

Creationism in Poland?

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NCSE is reporting that a creationist book has been distributed to Polish schools, even though they did not ask for them.  They write: A co...
Monday, August 10, 2015

Creationism in the Grand Canyon

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Steven Newton wrote a piece for HuffPo a week or so back on Creationism in the Grand Canyon .  He notes: Creationists often imply that to ...
Monday, May 18, 2015

Evolution and the Environment: A Graph by Josh Rosenau

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Josh Rosenau, at NCSE has constructed an interesting, if somewhat reductionist graph plotting acceptance of evolution and support for enviro...
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Thursday, May 07, 2015

Alabama Introduces "Strengths and Weaknesses" Bill

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NCSE is reporting that a bill that would allow teachers to investigate “strengths and weaknesses” of contentious scientific theories has be...
Friday, March 15, 2013

Another Ersatz Science Bill Fails

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NCSE reports that the time limit on the reading of Oklahoma House Bill 1674 was allowed to lapse.  According to the story : Along with Sen...
Friday, May 18, 2012

Credit for Creationism Class Bill

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Glenn Branch of the NCSE has shown light on a bill in the Alabama legislature that has, mercifully, died. This bill would have allowed loc...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Eugenie Scott on “Critical Thinking Bills”

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Robert Luhn at NCSE sent me a link for this lecture by Eugenie Scott at the University of South Florida, in February of 2012 on the “academi...
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Friday, January 27, 2012

Indiana Joins the Fray

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According to a report from the NCSE, Indiana's state senate has passed a bill that: if enacted would allow local school districts to ...
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Saturday, September 03, 2011

New Film by Greta Schiller: No Dinosaurs in Heaven

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Greta Schiller has a documentary film out called No Dinosaurs in Heaven , which I think is a very odd title and is likely to add fuel to the...
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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Texas Board of Education Approves Supplememental Texts as Written

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The Texas State Board of Education approved the supplemental material as written, rather than taking the supplements from other groups, one ...
Friday, April 01, 2011

NCSE Upchucky Award: AiG's Ark Park

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The second annual NCSE Upchucky Award has been awarded : Which creationist made us toss our cookies? As constant as the northern wind, as t...
Friday, September 11, 2009

Ben Stein Being Sincere and Not So Sincere

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Ben Stein, speechwriter for presidents, host of the great game show "Win Ben Stein's Money," which, sadly, is not still on, an...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Evolution and Creationism: A Continuum or a Taxonomy?

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Steve Martin over at An Evangelical Dialogue on Evolution has some thoughts about the NCSE Creation—Evolution " Continuum ." Thi...
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