NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2016/11/18

Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2016-11-18 14:36. National Center for Science Education

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

A preview of Joseph Romm's Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to
Know. And a creationist lawsuit against Kansas over the state's
adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards is at a definitive
end.

» read more | 3530 reads

NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2016/11/11

Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2016-11-11 17:00. National Center for Science Education

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

Sad news of the death of Ralph J. Cicerone.

» read more | 3492 reads

NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2016/11/04

Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2016-11-04 14:29. National Center for Science Education

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

The Steveometer passes the 1400 mark. And a preview of Donald R.
Prothero's Giants of the Lost World.

» read more | 3336 reads

NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2016/10/28

Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2016-10-28 19:33. National Center for Science Education

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

Kudos for Jason R. Wiles. And news of the death of Jack T. Chick.

» read more | 3479 reads

NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2016/10/21

Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2016-10-21 17:00. National Center for Science Education

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

In Scientific American, Steve Mirsky continues to tell of his
adventures on the Colorado River with NCSE.

» read more | 3302 reads

NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2016/10/14

Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2016-10-14 18:40. National Center for Science Education

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

A new survey on attitudes toward climate change and politics.

» read more | 3611 reads

NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2016/10/07

Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2016-10-07 15:24. National Center for Science Education

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

A preview of a new book about the geology of the Grand Canyon.

» read more | 4143 reads

NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2016/09/30

Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2016-09-30 19:39. National Center for Science Education

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

Two members of Congress make the case for the Climate Change Education
Act. And there are new state science standards in Wyoming.

» read more | 3863 reads

NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2016/09/23

Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2016-09-23 17:20. National Center for Science Education

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

Creationists hope to take their case against the Next Generation Science Standards 
to the Supreme Court. NCSE's Grand Canyon excursion is featured in the pages of 
Scientific American, while NCSE's Josh Rosenau discusses climate change education 
in the pages of TES. And the shenanigans over evolution in state science standards 
resume in Texas.

» read more | 4224 reads

NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2016/09/16

Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2016-09-16 14:26. National Center for Science Education

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

Kudos for Bruce Alberts. A preview of The War on Science. And
creationism figures in a new lawsuit against a chain of charter
schools in Arizona.

» read more | 3543 reads

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Antievolutionists Say the Darndest Things

Antievolutionists often express outrage over alleged incivility from those who oppose their efforts to evade the establishment clause of the First Amendment. But they have no difficulty in dishing out the abuse themselves. Here is a sample from the Invidious Comparisons thread that documents egregious behavior on the part of the religious antievolution advocates.

IDC advocate John Calvert:

One thing that Jack Krebs and I agree with is that Pratt can be likened to an outpost under siege in a cultural war.

...

My wife and I just returned from a trip to Belgium. We visited Bastogne where a few brave Americans of the 101st Airborne Division were surrounded by the German Army during the battle of the bulge. The German attack was led by a crack SS unit that took no prisoners.

What were we fighting against in Bastogne? We were fighting against a Nazi regime that used the philosophy of Naturalism to justify a eugenics program of terrifying proportions. Naturalism is the belief that all phenomena result only from the laws of chemistry and physics and that teleological or design explanations are not valid. Naturalism is not science. It is a belief system.

In the same manner, the defenders in Pratt are fighting against Naturalism, although they may not realize it. Rather than fighting against science, they are actually fighting for science. They are fighting for science that is driven by logic and critical thinking rather than by a philosophy that teaches to the exclusion of all other teachings that we are the products of only chance and necessity. They are fighting for science that is driven by the scientific method rather than science that is driven by a philosophy of Naturalism.

...

Rather than using logic and good science to support its assault on the brave contingent in Pratt, the KCFS is using tactics one would expect from those that besieged Bastogne: scare tactics, misinformation and no substantive discussion of the real issues.

...

So, we are back looking at Pratt as the bombs fall. The question is whether the Board and the Community will be supported by the rest of us as they have had the guts that General McAullife and the other brave Americans had that cold winter day in Bastogne 54 years ago. McAullife's reply was very simple when asked to surrender: "Nuts!" McAullife and the 101st were subsequently relieved by elements of Patton's Third Army. In the same way we all need to rise up and put our hands together for the Pratt Board and Pratt Citizens that have just characterized the outrageous censorship by the science establishment as "Nuts!"

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