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Problem 4: Natural Selection Struggles to Fix Advantageous Traits in Populations
The Many Paths of Kenneth Miller
Congratulations to Richard Lewontin
NCSE is delighted to congratulate Richard Lewontin on being named as a recipient of the Crafoord Prize in Biosciences for 2015.
Facebook: n > 90,000
A milestone: there are now over 90,000 fans of NCSE's Facebook page. Why not join them, by visiting the page and becoming a fan by clicking on the "Like" box by NCSE's name?
Phylogenomics Produces New and Improved Tree of Birds
Between Migdol and the Sea: book review
Notwithstanding Grand Claims to the Contrary, Human Color Vision Still Presents a Major Evolutionary Enigma
Free Will Is Real and Materialism Is Wrong
The Very Neutral Kenneth Miller
Martin Pistorius and the Culture of Death
The Cosmic Fine-Tuning Argument for Intelligent Design, Now with "No More Tears" Formula
They've Got Eric Metaxas Under Their Skin: Now, the Religious Critics
Kenneth Miller Resists Chloroquine Resistance
You Go, Eric Metaxas! Measuring the Improbability of Intelligent Life Elsewhere in the Cosmos
Still Taking Aim at Eric Metaxas, the Media Underestimate the Degree to which Physicists See Evidence for Intelligent Design
The Fundamental Equation of Chemistry Is Itself Fine-Tuned
Me and Jack Kevorkian
Antievolution legislation in Missouri
Missouri's House Bill 486 (PDF), introduced in the Missouri House of Representatives on January 13, 2015, would confer "academic freedom to teach scientific evidence regarding evolution" to teachers. If enacted, the bill would in effect encourage science teachers with idiosyncratic opinions to teach anything they pleased, and discourage responsible educational authorities from intervening. The bill specifically cites "the theory of biological and hypotheses of chemical evolution" as controversial.
Progress in West Virginia
"The West Virginia Board of Education voted Wednesday to withdraw changes proposed to the state's science education standards," reports the Charleston Gazette (January 14, 2015).
West Virginia to revisit science standards
West Virginia's board of education is to reconsider its decision to undermine the treatment of climate science in its new state science standards at its January 14, 2015, meeting, according to The New York Times (January 13, 2015).
