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Why Bioethics Should "Fail"
#9 of Our Top Ten Evolution Stories of 2014: The Ham-Nye Creation Debate: A Huge Missed Opportunity
#10 of Our Top Ten Evolution Stories of 2014: A Stunning New Illustration of Intelligent Design in the Cell
Gilder on Privileged Species, a "Masterpiece" that "Expounds What Is the Most Important Discovery of 20th-Century Science"
Are men idiots?
Virginia's Questions for Atheist Santa
In Nature, Two Cosmologists Chide Other Cosmologists for Lack of Testable Evidence
Court Declares Orangutan "Non-Human Person"!
Paper Suggests Catch 22: Neo-Darwinism Faces Either a Massive Molecular Clock Misfire, or a Major Biogeographical Conundrum
Steven Novella Doesn't Trust His Computer One Bit
Congratulations to Patricia Kelley
NCSE is pleased to congratulate Patricia Kelley — a professor of geology at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and a member of NCSE's Advisory Council — on her selection as one of four Outstanding Professors of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Groundless Annual Ritual of ID Self-Congratulation
How Sex Is Like Fireworks
Anti-NGSS bill dies in Michigan
Michigan's House Bill 4972, which would, if enacted, have required that Michigan's "model core academic curriculum standards shall not be based on the Next Generation Science Standards," died in the House Committee on Education when the legislature adjourned on December 19, 2014.
A voice for evolution from Leeds
The chorus of support for the teaching of evolution continues, with a position statement on evolution from Leeds Museums and Galleries.
Leading Evolutionary Scientists Admit We Have No Evolutionary Explanation of Human Language
Brains on Fire: Dr. Steven Novella Explains, "The Mind Is the Fire of the Brain"
Interstellar Unwittingly Argues that Permitting Design Inferences Is Necessary to Good Science
According to New Research, Hummingbirds Have More Tricks Up Their Shoulder Bones
Disappointing news from Scotland
The Scottish government rejected the proposal to ban the teaching of creationism in publicly funded schools in Scotland, according to the Glasgow Herald (December 16, 2014). The head of Curriculum Unit at the Learning Directorate told the newspaper, "I can ... confirm that there are no plans to issue guidance to schools or education authorities to prevent the presentation of creationism, intelligent design or similar doctrines by teachers or school visitors. The evidence available suggests that guidance on these matters is unnecessary."
