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NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/07/19

Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2013-07-19 13:00. National Center for Science Education

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

New poll data on public understanding of evolution in Australia. A new
issue of Reports of the NCSE is now available on-line. NCSE offers a
free preview of Peter M. Hoffman's Life's Ratchet. Elaine Morgan,
advocate of the "aquatic ape" hypothesis, is dead. And videos of a
conference on communicating climate science, featuring NCSE staff, are
now available from the American Geophysical Union.

» read more | 2962 reads

NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/07/12

Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2013-07-12 15:42. National Center for Science Education

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

Antievolution activity is still a problem in Turkey. NCSE is seeking a
new editor for Reports of the NCSE. And climate change is back in the
national curriculum in Britain.

» read more | 3118 reads

NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/07/05

Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2013-07-05 16:20. National Center for Science Education

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

The Next Generation Science Standards are now five for five. And
Eugenie C. Scott talks about the challenges to climate education with
Inside Climate News.

» read more | 2816 reads

NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/06/28

Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2013-06-28 13:54. National Center for Science Education

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

A discouraging report on evolution education in Turkey. New videos on
NCSE's YouTube channel. And kudos from the Society for the Study of
Evolution for Judy Scotchmoor.

» read more | 3038 reads

NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/06/21

Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2013-06-21 13:57. National Center for Science Education

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

Congratulations to Bill McKibben. A reminder that you can help NCSE's
archives. And two voices from evolution from the Sooner State.

» read more | 3101 reads

NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/06/14

Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2013-06-14 14:40. National Center for Science Education

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear friends of NCSE,

Kansas adopts the Next Generation Science Standards despite protests
about evolution and climate change. Plus a symposium on "Democracy and
Science" that addresses evolution and climate science, and a free
preview of Adam Rutherford's Creation.

» read more | 3849 reads

NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/06/07

Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2013-06-07 16:10. National Center for Science Education

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

Louisiana's equal-time-for-creation-science law remains on the books.
A reminder that NCSE is seeking a new executive director. A new issue
of Reports of the NCSE is available. And a new voice for evolution is
raised in Oregon.

» read more | 3050 reads

NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/05/31

Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2013-05-31 14:56. National Center for Science Education

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

A setback for the attempt to remove the unconstitutional Balanced
Treatment Act from Louisiana's statutes. A statement supporting the
teaching of climate change from the American Meteorological Society.
And a preview of John A. Long's The Dawn of the Deed.

» read more | 2819 reads

NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/05/24

Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2013-05-24 21:14. National Center for Science Education

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

Good news from Missouri; a new honor for Eugenie C. Scott; and a new
study confirming the existence of a robust scientific consensus on
climate change.

» read more | 3111 reads

NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/05/17

Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2013-05-17 14:41. National Center for Science Education

(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)

Dear Friends of NCSE,

A tribute to NCSE in the pages of Nature. A possible sign of progress
in Louisiana. Sad news of the death of Mark Perakh. A worldwide poll
of Muslims offering a degree of insight on their views of evolution.
And a preview of Eugenie C. Scott's Evolution vs. Creationism.

» read more | 3676 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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NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2013/05/31

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