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

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). […]

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. […]

Please visit my new blog at Scienceblogs.com

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 […]

Minnetonka School Board Candidate William Wenmark. His campaign site is here.
Creationist School Board William H. Wenmark up for re-election in Minnetonka. Minnetonkians, please GET OUT THE VOTE!
Minnetonka is a large and sprawling lake, a lovely little town, and a pretty darn good school district west of Minneapolis. But the story […]

Ave , Maria, Florida. “Ave Maria officials have decided it’s time to set the record straight. There’s not going to be a special cable provider that doesn’t carry X-rated channels. The town isn’t going to be a Catholic utopia, where only practicing Catholics are welcome. And no one is dictating what can or, […]

The Swedish government is to crack down on the role religion plays in independent faith schools. The new rules will include a ban on biology teachers teaching creationism or ‘intelligent design’ alongside evolution.
“Pupils must be protected from all forms of fundamentalism,” said Education Minister Jan Björklund to Dagens Nyheter.
Read the rest here.

This just in from the National center for Science Education (unedited):
Dear Friends of NCSE,
A special alert about the Vitter earmark to fund a creationist “science education program” in Louisiana. Call your senator today!
SPECIAL ALERT ABOUT THE VITTER EARMARK
Alert! The United States Senate is poised to fund the development of an antievolution “science education […]

The human rights monitoring Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe approved (48-25 vote) a report criticizing creationism, and determining that teaching creationism in schools potentially sacrifices chidlren’s education by imposing religious dogma.Castle, Stephen. “European lawmakers condemn efforts to teach creationism. International Herald Tribune.

European lawmakers condemn efforts to teach creationism
The vote […]

Does the new SCSSS position statement position creationists to introduce creationism and religion into public schools?
As indicated in a press release by the National Center for Science Education, the National Council for the Social Studies has released a position statement on Intelligent Design.

…There have been efforts for many decades to introduce religious […]

17th century Arabic anatomy drawing, from the Advances of Islamic Sciences web site. In some Islamic sects, drawing living things is not allowed. As a very practical matter, this excludes students from taking part in certain activities in science classrooms.
During the Bell Museum Slapdown panel last week, Myers brought up differences […]