Hey, check out this ancient NCSE training film!

Genie Scott and Stephen Meyer square off at the First Amendment Center. For more about the First Amendment and related issues, visit www.firstamendmentcenter.org. Broadcast date: 2/17/1997

And pigs can fly.
Hat tip to Jafsica for reminding me of this ad!

Especially for Teachers
Teachers Under Fire
Is Blood Ever Blue? Science Teachers Want to Know!
Teachers Gone Wild

Resources (documents)

Bill Foster’s Letter
The Grubbs and Gibbs Memorandum: Require A Religious Reading of the Evolutionary Record in Public Schools

Education and Public Science: Creationism, Intelligent Design, Home Schooling
The Myers - Rue Debate And Why They Had to Taser Me
The Bible-Thumping Grinch […]

You’ll notice that Ben Stein and his movie Expelled have taken up permanent residence in the ads on this page. To complement this intrusion, I’ve assembled links to a number of insightful blog posts on this movie.
Let the Flamewar Begin, Ben Stein
It’s a propaganda film!
Ben Stein can’t get anything right
I’m gonna be […]

I’m pretty sure Amanda and I were abducted by aliens this morning. This is not the first time, for me. I was abducted with two others about 20 years ago in Southern Maine while looking for antiques, back when you could still get them cheap even in antique stores (inexpensive antiques, not aliens). […]

Even as the 2008 Democratic presidential candidates prepared to debate Tuesday night, Ralph Nader, a controversial figure from the last two presidential campaigns, sued the Democratic Party, the Kerry-Edwards 2004 campaign and affiliated groups for allegedly sabotaging his 2004 campaign.
“The Democratic Party is going after anyone who presents a credible challenge to their monopoly […]

Free Pot … Poison Candy … the line is blurred in Minnesota.

Trick-Or-Treaters Warned Of Pot-Laced Candy
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ― The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has issued a warning about drug-laced candy found during a recent narcotics investigation.
Sheriff Rick Stanek says chocolates and caramels laced with the drug THC were found by the Southwest […]

Larry Moran has written a post in which he presents an opposite view of what I stated here. My statements merely echo those of the National Center for Science Education, the US. Supreme Court, and others because I believe that the “Teaching of the Controversy” should not be allowed in public school science classrooms. […]

It has become axiomatic that US students are behind students in other countries in math and science, a decreasing number of students engage in these subjects in school, and an insufficient number of US students are graduating with studies in these areas to meet demand.
However, The Urban Institute, a non-partisan think tank with no obvious […]

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The following is an abstract from an article by Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education called “WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE “TEACH THE CONTROVERSY” SLOGAN?” available here.
Teachers are often exhorted by creationists to “teach the controversy.” Although such encouragement sounds on the surface like a […]

According to Randy Moore, who is possibly the nation’s leading expert on law and practice of the Evolution/Creationism struggle:
According to reports from 1,441 undergraduate students at a large, public American university, most high-school biology teachers teach evolution. Approximately 25% of students who attended public schools report that their biology teachers also taught creationism, despite the […]

The Following is a large excerpt from an editorial by Jason Wiles of McGill University and Anila Asghar of Johns Hopkins University, published in the McGill Journal of Education, and introducing a special issue on the teaching of evolution. News of this comes to us from the National Center for Science Education, and the […]

Rudy Jiuliani, Former Mayor of New York and Current Republican Candidate for President of the United States. This is not a doctored photograph. It is Rudy Giuliani at a party in 2000.
As PZ Myers points out in his comment on this news story, “Yeah, I know, it’s getting so predictable it’s not […]

There is an interesting short piece on Panda’s Thumb regarding the claim that “Darwinism leads to Fascism.”
The point: Saying that “A Darwinian society would be a fascist state” is like saying that “a Quanum Mechanical society would be an anarchy.” In other words, dumb, dumb, dumb. Read it here.