(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

Creationism is stirring in Louisiana. In the meantime, the History
News Network commemorates the anniversary of the Scopes trial with a
pair of essays, and the American Academy of Religion affirms that
creation science or intelligent design are wrong for the science
classroom.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

Barbara Forrest slams the so-called Louisiana Science Education Act again. 
Meanwhile, a host of new videos is now available on NCSE's YouTube channel, 
and there's unsurprising poll data on the acceptance of evolution in 
Canada, Great Britain, and the United States.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

Plenty of summer reading, with new content from Reports of the NCSE and a 
sample chapter from Nick Lane's Life Ascending now available on NCSE's 
website.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

The first year of Randy Moore's "People & Places" column is now
available on-line. Chris Comer's appeal failed -- the Texas Education
Agency's policy requiring "neutrality" of its employees when "talking
about evolution and creationism" is not unconstitutional. And NCSE's
Eugenie C. Scott is profiled in the Capital Times.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

A special issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach in honor of
Eugenie C. Scott's sixty-fifth birthday is published, and Creation is
now available on DVD.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

The Institute for Creation Research suffers a legal defeat in Texas,
while Louisiana's politicians are reproached for their anti-science
agenda in light of the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

Encouraging news from Nebraska, and a preview of Massimo Pigliucci's new book.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

A call for creationism to be taught in Russia is in the news, and a
batch of new videos is available at NCSE's YouTube channel.

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

Two antievolution bills in the South Carolina legislature are dead; a
new survey suggests that a quarter of Americans don't agree that the
universe is about 13.7 billion years old; and NCSE's Joshua Rosenau
reviews a book for the Washington Post

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

The results of a new survey appear, with questions on evolution,
religion, and scientific consensus. The polymathic Martin Gardner is
dead. And NCSE is pleased to offer a sample chapter of Daniel Radosh's
Rapture Ready.