Reports of the National Center for Science Education

A quarterly publication for NCSE's supporters, providing the latest on our work supporting accurate and effective climate change and evolution education.

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Volume 30
RNCSE
No. 1-2
Review: The Timetree of Life
Print Edition Contents: 30 (1-2)
Review: The Religion and Science Debate
Review: Superstition
Review: Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism
Review: For the Rock Record
Review: Stephen Jay Gould: Reflections
Review: The Lost World of Genesis One
Review: Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons
Stealing Down the Road to Perdition
There You Go Again!
True Darwin, but False Comfort
Review: The Young Charles Darwin
RNCSE
No. 3
Review: The Scopes Trial
Americans’ Scientific Knowledge and Beliefs about Human Evolution in the Year of Darwin
Print Edition Contents: 30 (3)
Reviews: The True Adventures of Charley Darwin [&] Charles and Emma
Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter
Review: The Greatest Show on Earth
RNCSE
No. 4
“How Did You End Up in This Job, Anyway?”
Use Sunscreen, and Use Your Brains
Vestigial Structures Exist Even Within the Creationist Paradigm
Review: Darwin's Lost World
Review: Archaeopteryx
Review: The Genesis Enigma
Coming Soon: A New RNCSE
RNCSE
No. 5
Review: Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
Review: The Panda's Black Box
Review: Darwin's Ark
Review: Creationism and the Conflict over Evolution
Origin of Polonium Halos
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No. 6
Review: Choosing Selection: The Revival of Natural Selection in Anglo-American Evolutionary Biology, 1930-1970
Review: Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Evolution
Review: Darwin’s Island: The Galápagos in the Garden of England
Review: Darwin in Scotland: Edinburgh, Evolution, and Enlightenment
Review: The Creation-Evolution Debate: Historical Perspectives
Review: Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be
The Glendive Dinosaur & Fossil Museum, Glendive, Montana
Quote-Mining: An Old Anti-Evolutionist Strategy
The Latest “Intelligent Design” Journal
Review: The Voyage that Shook the World
Review: The Deep Structure of Biology
Review: Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity
Volume 29
RNCSE
No. 1
Review: Darwinian Detectives
Briscoe Geology Park
Moves and Countermoves in Texas
Siccar Point
Print Edition Contents: 29 (1)
Review: Darwin and the Bible
Review: Negotiating Darwin
Review: More than Darwin
Evolution Learning Community Encourages Dialog on Evolution at UNC Wilmington
Charles Darwin: Botanist
RNCSE
No. 2
Review: Evolutionary Creation
Review: Back to Darwin
Review: Charles Darwin
Thank God for Evolution! - A Response to a RNCSE Review
Rejoinder to Comments on "Winning Their Hearts and Minds: Who Should Speak for Evolution?"
Keeping Evolution Education in Perspective: A Response to Daryl Domning
Communicating Evolutionary Science to a Religious Public
Victory over "Weaknesses" in Texas
The Latest on Expelled
A Furor over Creationism at the Royal Society
Implementing Louisiana's Anti-Evolution Law
Creationism in Brunswick County
The Temple of Serapis
Print Edition Contents: 29 (2)
Review: Render Unto Darwin
Review: Saving Darwin
Response to "Winning their Hearts and Minds"
Winning Their Hearts and Minds: Who Should Speak for Evolution?
RNCSE
No. 3
Review: Worlds before Adam
Review: Trying Leviathan
Review: God or Gorilla
Review: Adam's Ancestors
Review: Rebel Giants
Review: Evolution and Religious Creation Myths
The Kilosteve
NCSE Honors "Friends of Darwin" for 2005
McLeroy Under Scrutiny
Dayton, Tennessee
Print Edition Contents: 29 (3)
Texas Science Standards and March Madness
Testimony Before the Texas State Board of Education
Review: Why Evolution is True
Review: Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters
Review: Only a Theory
RNCSE
No. 4
Review: Intelligent Design: Science or Religion?
Review: Darwin Day in America
"Intelligent Design": Wave of the Future or Ghost of the Past?
NCSE Honors "Friends of Darwin" for 2006
NCSE Encourages Federal Scientific Integrity
Darwin Year in the Netherlands: A Time to Reflect
William Paley, 1743-1805
Mainline Protestant Clergy on Evolution
Print Edition Contents: 29 (4)
Review: The Cell's Design
Unintelligent Design
Review: Critique of Intelligent Design
Whither "Intelligent Design" Creationism?
Review: The Devil in Dover
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No. 5
Edward Blyth: Creationist or Just Another Misinterpreted Scientist?
Review: More than a Theory
Review: Why the Universe Is the Way It Is
Yes, Noah's Flood May Have Happened, But Not Over the Whole Earth
Reflections on a Visit to the Creation Museum
Creation Evidence Museum
Print Edition Contents: 29 (5)
A Nobelist Misrepresented in Texas
Review: The Bible, Rocks and Time
Review: Reframing Scopes
Credibility, Profitability, and Irrefutability
Review: The Darwin Myth
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No. 6
Review: Darwin’s Universe
The State of High School Biology Teachers' Understanding of Evolution
Engaging the Controversy in Science Education
Teaching the "E-Word" in Tennessee
(Very Gradual) Change We Can Believe In
Going Back to Glen Rose
NCSE Honors "Friends of Darwin" for 2007
Norman Levitt Dies
Print Edition Contents: 29 (6)
A Creationism Row in Hong Kong
Review: The Paleobiological Revolution
The Effect of Viewing NOVA's Judgment Day
Review: The Genius of Charles Darwin
Review: Darwin’s Sacred Cause
Review: Darwin's Illness
Volume 28
RNCSE
No. 1
Review: The Making of the Fittest
Review: Science, Evolution, and Creationism
The Mysterious "Spheres" of Ottosdal, South Africa
NCSE's New Logo
Science, Evolution, and Creationism
Texas Education Official Forced to Resign Over Evolution
Print Edition Contents: 28 (1)
Review: Origins: A Reformed Look at Creation, Design, & Evolution
Review: Worlds of Their Own
A Sorry State of Affairs
The German Anti-Darwin Industry
Explore Evolution: Notes from the Field
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No. 2
Review: The Wonderful Adventures of Nat Selleck and Eva Lou Shinn in Sci Fi Land
Review: Smithsonian Intimate Guide To Human Origins
Review: Darwin's Gift
Hacking and I
Anti-Evolution Legislation in the Bayou State
Print Edition Contents: 28 (2)
Evolution Comes to Florida's Science Standards
Review: Hollow Earth
Review: A Natural History of Time
A Setback for the ICR in Texas
Review: In the Beginning
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No. 3
Review: Teaching about Scientific Origins
Harun Yahya's Legal Troubles
Penn Kicks Off Year of Evolution
Print Edition Contents: 28 (3)
Good, Bad, and Lots of Indifferent: State K-12 Science Standards
Review: Making Sense of Evolution
Review: The Evolving World
Review: Creation and Evolution: A Conference with Pope Benedict XVI
Creationism Slips Into a Peer-Reviewed Journal
RNCSE
No. 4
Review: Secularism & Science in the 21st Century
Polling Creationism in Canada
MnCSE Honors Ken Hubert
Louisiana Enacts a New Creationist Law
Print Edition Contents: 28 (4)
Review: Darwin Strikes Back
Review: Beyond the Firmament
Calvin Meets the Hominins: A Brief History of Creationism in South Africa
Evolution in the Sunshine State: The Fight Over Evolution in the State Science Standards
From the World-Wide Flood to the World Wide Web: Creationism in the Digital Age
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No. 5-6
Print Edition Contents: 28 (5-6)
Why Re-Invent the Crystal?
Divergence over "Expelled"
"Expelled" and the Reviewers
"Expelled"'s Copyright Woes
"Expelled" Tanks at the Box Office After Big Start
A Rude Introduction to "Expelled"
Volume 27
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No. 1-2
The Evolution of RNCSE
Print Edition Contents: 27 (1-2)
Review: The Edge of Evolution
Review: The Creationist Debate
Review: Living With Darwin
NCSE: A Decade in Retrospect
A Visit to the New Creation "Museum"
Review: Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism
Review: Doubting Darwin?
Review: Darwinism and its Discontents
RNCSE
No. 3-4
Review: Darwin in the Genome
Review: The Man Who Found Time
Review: An Introduction to Biological Evolution
Review: Breaking the Spell
Responding to ID in a Freshman College Class
The Design Revolution?
Recurrence of the Same?
Workshop on Teaching Evolution at the University of Colorado
Print Edition Contents: 27 (3-4)
Review: 40 Days and 40 Nights
Review: Origins of Life
Review: Encyclopedia of Evolution
Renewed Concern About Creationism at Grand Canyon National Park
Has Natural Selection Been Refuted? The Arguments of William Dembski
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No. 5-6
Review: A Jealous God
Review: Mammals Who Morph
Review: Evolution versus Intelligent Design
Review: Intelligent Design and Fundamentalist Opposition to Evolution
Review: Just a Theory
Review: Our Inner Ape
Gravity: It's Only a Theory
In Praise of the Bravery of Biology Teachers
Creationism in the Russian Educational Landscape
Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial
Review: The Voyage of the Beetle
Review: God and Evolution: A Reader
The History of Life as a Walk in the Park
Print Edition Contents: 27 (5-6)
The Rise and Fall of the Vitter Earmark
The Answers in Genesis Schism
A Victory over "Intelligent Design" in Oklahoma
Review: Dinosaurs
Volume 26
RNCSE
No. 1-2
Print Edition Contents: 26 (1-2)
My Role in Kitzmiller v Dover
Design on Trial
Can I Keep a Witness?
"Ties" to Canada
Closing Statement for the Plaintiffs in Kitzmiller v Dover
Review: Traipsing into Evolution
The Dover Victory
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No. 3
Print Edition Contents: 26 (3)
Review: Fatal Flaws
Review: Darwinian Conservatism
The Evolution of Biological Complexity
"Critical Analysis" Defeated in Ohio
The "Grill the ID Guys" Event at Biola
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No. 4
Print Edition Contents: 26 (4)
Review: Cladistics
Ten (Eleven) Things Evolutionists Can Do to Improve Communication
Baraminology
Species, Kinds, and Evolution
Problems with the Intersession Course
"Critical Analysis" in Ohio
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No. 5
Print Edition Contents: 26 (5)
Review: Who Was Adam?
Review: Creation as Science
Turkish Creationist Movement Tours American College Campuses
Devolution and Dinosaurs
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No. 6
Review: Why Darwin Matters
Print Edition Contents: 26 (6)
Review: Intelligent Design vs Evolution
Review: Darwin's Nemesis
Review: After the Dinosaurs
New Creationist Textbook On the Way (Again)
Trouble in Paradise
Volume 25
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No. 1-2
Print Edition Contents: 25 (1-2)
Review: The Privileged Planet
Review: Does God Belong in Public Schools?
Nothing Wrong with Discussing Evolution in School
Is Evolution Arkansas's Hidden Curriculum?
The Senator and the Science Committee
The Senator and the Science Committee
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No. 3-4
Print Edition Contents: 25 (3-4)
Review: The Republican War on Science
Review: Why is a Fly not a Horse?
Evolution is a Winner -- for Breakthroughs and Prizes
Bird Flu, Bush, Evolution -- and Us
President Bush Addresses "Intelligent Design"
New Mexico's Science Standards Do not Support the Concept of "Teach the Controversy"
RNCSE
No. 5-6
Print Edition Contents: 25 (5-6)
Entropy in Muffins
Reviews: Evolution 101
Review: The Plausibility of Life
Review: Into the Cool
The Life Science Prize
Non-Mineralized Tissues in Fossil T rex
Creationism and the Laws of Thermodynamics
Volume 24
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No. 1
Bibliolatry Revisited: Review: Grand Canyon
Questioning "Flood Geology"
Flaws in a Young-Earth Cooling Mechanism
Flood Geology in the Grand Canyon
Ohio Teachers on Teaching Evolution and Counter-Evolutionary Concepts in Biology Classrooms
RNCSE
No. 2
The Coso Artifact
Shall We Let Our Children Think?
"Intelligent Design" in the Bitterroot Valley
RNCSE
No. 3-4
Review: God and Evolution
Review: Faith, Form, and Time
Review: Developing a Christian Worldview of Science and Evolution
Review: Biology Through the Eyes of Faith
Francis Crick Dies
Is There Two-Way Traffic on the Bridge?
Evolution in Mexico
RNCSE
No. 5
Polling the Creationism/Evolution Controversy
Roland Mushat Frye Dies
Impressions of the Claremont Conference & Ernst Mayr
Design on Trial in Dover, Pennsylvania
The Creationists: How Many, Who, and Where?
The Latest Polls on Creationism and Evolution
RNCSE
No. 6
Confronting Creationism
Winning the Creation Debate
Then A Miracle Occurs...
Debates
Challenging Creationist Debaters
Grantsburg Activists Budge School Board
Evolution Activism
RNCSE
Otis Dudley Duncan Dies
Volume 23
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No. 1
Review: Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution
Review: The Quest for Truth
Review: The Primate Fossil Record
Review: The Ghost in the Universe
Review: The Creation Controversy & the Science Classroom
Review: The Antiquity of Man
Review: Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction
My Favorite Pseudoscience
Cobb County Clarifies: Teach Only Science in Science Classes
RNCSE
No. 2
Strategies to Help Students Change Naive Alternative Conceptions about Evolution and Natural Selection
Review: Species of Origins
Review: In Darwin's Shadow
Paradigm Glossed: How to Make an ID Debate Worthwhile
RNCSE
No. 3-4
The Scary Story
The Astrobiological Perspective on Life's Origin
Faith, the Environment, and Evolution
Astrobiology and the Search for Alien Life
RNCSE
No. 5-6
The Textbook Choosers' Guide
What Design Looks Like
Eight Challenges for Intelligent Design Advocates
Evolution: Still Deep in the Heart of Textbooks
Darwinism and Intelligent Design: The New Anti-Evolutionism Spreads in Europe
Volume 22
RNCSE
No. 1-2
Review: Darwin's God
Why NCSE Should Be Involved in the Science-Religion Dialog
Michael Behe and "Intelligent Design" on National Public Radio
Farewell to the Santorum Amendment?
Goodbye, Columbus
RNCSE
No. 3
Racism and the Public's Perception of Evolution
The Evolution of Racism: An Interview with Pat Shipman
Tracking Those Incredible Creationists
RNCSE
No. 4
Review: King of the Crocodylians
Review: Infinite Tropics
Review: An Evolving Dialogue
Quote-Mining Comes to Ohio
RNCSE
No. 5
Trading on Genomes
Review: Who Wrote the Book of Life?
Review: Charles Darwin: The Power of Place
Evolution Education Award for Steve Randak
RNCSE
No. 6
Remembering Stephen Jay Gould
NCSE Members Reply to Cal Thomas
John A Moore: A Champion of Evolution
Ohio Reflections
New OSU Dean an Evolution Activist
Volume 21
RNCSE
No. 1-2
The Goal of Evolution Instruction: Belief or Literacy?
The Children's Crusade for Creation
The American Scientific Affiliation and the Evangelical Response to Evolution
Teaching Evolution: Do State Science Standards Matter?
Defining Evolution
No "Kansas" in Arkansas
The Big Tent and the Camel's Nose
RNCSE
No. 3-4
Review: Death of a Rat
Shanks and Joplin Reply
Behe Responds to Shanks and Joplin
Stanley Weinberg, NCSE Founder, Dies
Flat Earth Society President Dies
Ignorance Can Be Funny
RNCSE
No. 5-6
More on Birds and Dinosaurs
A Tale of Two Entities: Whales and Hippos
Creationism in the Comics
Volume 20
RNCSE
No. 1-2
Review: Genes, People, and Languages
Of Mousetraps and Men: Behe on Biochemistry
Darwinism in "Crisis" - Again
Hammed!
An Interview with Edward J Larson
The Search for Noah's Ark in the Science Curriculum?
Anti-Evolutionists Open a New Front
In Memory of Bob Schadewald
A Review of Of Pandas and People as a Textbook Supplement
Pandas Update
RNCSE
No. 3
Review: Evolution
Review: Ride to Glory
Nuclear Isochrons
The Evolution Debate is About Honesty
Radiometric Dating Does Work!
Dissecting the Disclaimer
RNCSE
No. 4
NCSE Begins Clergy Program
Creationism and Pseudomathematics
Intelligent Design in the Classroom?
Evolution: How Does It Fare in State K-12 Science Standards?
Design and its Critics: Yet Another ID Conference
Can Intelligent Design Become Respectable?
Baylor's Polanyi Center in Turmoil
Intelligent Design in Pratt County, Kansas
RNCSE
No. 5
The Origin of Whales and the Power of Independent Evidence
Creationism and the Emergence of Animals: The Original Spin
Dinosaurs and Birds -- an Update
Rodney LeVake Loses Appeal
RNCSE
No. 6
Review: The Wedge of Truth
Review: Science of Today and the Problems of Genesis
Review: A Kansan's Guide to Science
Anti-evolution Standards Rejected in Hawai'i
Senseless in the Senate
Volume 19
RNCSE
No. 1
Just What Do They Say, Dr Morris?
Creationism in Schoolbooks
Textbook Authors Join NCSE in Defending Evolution Education
Stephen Meyer and Creation Week
NCSE Members Receive 'Friend of Darwin' Awards
RNCSE
No. 2
NCSE Members Launch A Legend
Review: The Design Inference
Trivializing Creationist Scholarship
Equal Time for the Origin of Granite
The NCSE 'Acts & Facts' Checker
Texas Board of Education Honors Mel and Norma Gabler
RNCSE
No. 3
Review: Skeptics and True Believers
Review: Forbidden Archaeology's Impact
Australopithecus garhi: A New-Found Link?
Cheering with the Enemy
Help Counter Creationism in Russia
The De-riving Force of Cladogenesis
A New Tactic for Getting "Creation Science" Into Classrooms?
RNCSE
No. 4
Edward Davis Replies
(Phillip Johnson's) Response to Edward Davis
Creationist Tornado Rips Evolution out of Kansas Science Standards
Bleeding Kansas: What Happened? What's Next?
RNCSE
No. 5
Review: Mystery of Mysteries
A Scientist Responds to Behe's "Black Box"
Oklahoma Textbook Committee Adopts Evolution Disclaimer
Another View from Kansas
Dr Dino Does 'Delphia
Unmasking the False Prophet of Creationism
RNCSE
No. 6
Review: Tower of Babel
Review: Did Darwin Get it Right?
Islamic Scientific Creationism
Cloning Creationism in Turkey
What Makes Islamic Science Islamic?
Minnesota Teacher Sues District Over Evolution
Geologists Explain Evolution
"Creation Museum" Moves Forward
Volume 18
RNCSE
No. 1
When Creationists Visit Your School
Scientific Expertise and the Media
Outdated Advice Still Going the Rounds
Changing the Public's Perception of Evolution
The Legacy of Frank T Awbrey
California Science Standards Raise Serious Questions
RNCSE
No. 2
What do Christians REALLY Believe about Evolution?
Review: The Science of God
Science and Religion, Methodology, and Humanism
Creationism, A Trip to the Dark Side
Denton Becomes a (Teleological) Evolutionist
Introduction to "Science and the Spiritual Quest" Conference
"Science and Religion", "Christian Scholarship", and "Theistic Science"
Science Education, Scientists, and Faith
Do Scientists Really Reject God?
RNCSE
No. 3
What Genesis is Really About
The 1998 International Conference on Creationism
Quantifying the Importance of Evolution
Helping Schools to Teach Evolution
Evolution in the 1998 Elections
RNCSE
No. 4
Review: Intelligent Design Versus Evolution
Bibliolatry in the Grand Canyon
Evolution as a Heuristic
NCSE Board Members: The Active Type
RNCSE
No. 5
Lucy and the ICR: Bearing False Witness Against Thy Neighbor
Long-Term Solar Oscillations and the Age of the Sun
"Equal Time" In School Libaries?
RNCSE
No. 6
Vine Deloria Jr, Creationism, and Ethnic Pseudoscience
Over the Hump -- Taking the AIG Camel Challenge!
Volume 17
RNCSE
No. 1
Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
Evolution of the NABT Statement on the Teaching of Evolution
Anti-evolutionists Form, Fund Think Tank
RNCSE
No. 2
Evolution "Too Controversial" for Illinois Schools
Arizona Regent Protests Evolution Institute Move
RNCSE
No. 3
Miracles In, Creationism Out
The Elusive Scientific Basis of Intelligent Design Theory
RNCSE
No. 4
The Predictive Power of Evolutionary Biology and the Discovery of Eusociality in the Naked Mole Rat
Dealing with Anti-Evolutionism
RNCSE
No. 5
The Naked Truth
History Forum Addresses Creation/Evolution Controversy
Why Teach Evolution?
The Newer Anti-Evolutionists: Introducing Greg Koukl
The More Things Change
Creation Science and Free Speech
Milestone, 1997: NCSE Submits Brief in Creationism Case
Milestone, 1997: NCSE Submits Brief in Creationism Case
RNCSE
No. 6
The Tale of the Whale
A Visit to the Institute for Creation Research
Creationist Geology and Intuition
Review: Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds
Many Scientists See God's Hand in Evolution
Volume 16
RNCSE
No. 1
Close Ohio House Vote Scuttles "Evidence Against Evolution" Bill
Washington School District Wrestles with Creationism, "Intelligent Design Theory"
RNCSE
No. 2
Evolution Challenged in Colorado's Largest School District
RNCSE
No. 4
Texas Textbook Adoptions: Whither (Wither) Evolution?
Volume 15
RNCSE
No. 1
More Patter of Little Pandas
Texas: No Pandas for Plano
RNCSE
No. 3
Oregon: Creationism Continues to Simmer in the Pacific Northwest
RNCSE
No. 4
One Day Wonders
Volume 1314
RNCSE
No. 4-1
Popper and Evolution
Volume 12
RNCSE
No. 2
Televangelist Promotes Of Pandas and People
Volume 11
RNCSE
No. 1
Selling Pandas
Volume 10
RNCSE
No. 1
Review: Of Pandas and People
Science Text Adoptions in Alabama: Part II
RNCSE
No. 4
The Foundation for Thought and Ethics
Volume 9
RNCSE
No. 2
New Creationist Book On the Way
RNCSE
No. 5
Alabama Textbook Selection in Context
RNCSE
No. 6
Science Textbook Adoptions in Alabama: Part I