NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2017/06/09
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2017-06-09 14:18.
National Center for Science Education
(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear friends of NCSE, A prescient article about the antievolution movement dating from 1988 is now available on NCSE's website.
"THE RISE AND FALL OF THE LOUISIANA CREATIONIST LAW" NCSE is pleased to announce that the text of William J. Bennetta's "The Rise and Fall of the Louisiana Creationist Law" -- a two-part article that appeared in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County's magazine Terra in 1988 -- is now available on NCSE's website, courtesy of the author and the museum. Writing in the wake of the decision in Edwards v. Aguillard, Bennetta was prophetic about the next developments: "the creationists' new pseudoscience will carry a new name ... Its content will be fully sterilized: it will avoid explicit supernaturalism, and it will speak not of any god but of a nebulous 'intelligence' or 'intelligent cause.'" A biologist and fellow of the California Academy of Science, Bennetta was the president of The Textbook League -- a non-profit organization that scrutinized textbooks for errors of fact, especially including what Bennetta habitually described as "creationist claptrap" -- and the editor of its publication The Textbook Letter. For "The Rise and Fall of the Louisiana Creationist Law," visit: https://ncse.com/library-resource/rise-fall-louisiana-creationism-law WHAT'S NEW AT NCSE'S BLOG? Have you been visiting NCSE's blog recently? If not, then you've missed: * Glenn Branch reviewing the continuing reaction to a climate change denial propaganda campaign aimed at teachers: https://ncse.com/blog/2017/06/heartbreak-heartland-continues-0018546 For NCSE's blog, visit: http://ncse.com/blog Thanks for reading. And don't forget to visit NCSE's website -- http://ncse.com -- where you can always find the latest news on evolution and climate education and threats to them. -- Sincerely, Glenn Branch Deputy Director National Center for Science Education, Inc. 1904 Franklin Street, Suite 600 Oakland CA 94612-2922 510-601-7203 fax 510-788-7971 branch@ncse.com http://ncse.com Check out NCSE's blog: http://ncse.com/blog Read Reports of the NCSE on-line: http://reports.ncse.com Subscribe to NCSE's free weekly e-newsletter: http://groups.google.com/group/ncse-news NCSE is on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter: http://www.facebook.com/evolution.ncse http://www.youtube.com/NatCen4ScienceEd http://twitter.com/ncse NCSE's work is supported by its members. Join today! http://ncse.com/join
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