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Evolution and Climate Change News from NCSE – MAY 3rd

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Bob

REPEAL EFFORTS FAILS AGAIN IN LOUISIANA Louisiana’s Senate Bill 26 was tabled on a 3-2 vote in the Senate Committee on Education on May 1, 2013, which effectively kills the bill in committee, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune (May … Continue reading →

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Evolution and Climate Change Update – April 26

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Bob

From NCSE: A new poll offers a degree of insight on American scientific literacy on issues connected to evolution and climate change. POLLING AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC LITERACY A new poll from the Pew Research Center and Smithsonian magazine offers a degree … Continue reading →

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News from OESE

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Bob

  OKLAHOMA/TEXAS EVOLUTION ROAD TRIP:  OPEN TO ALL. Thursday May 30 thru Sunday June 2, 2013 

 Time is running short to register for the Oklahoma Evolution Road Trip! It is May 30 through June 2 and costs $350 which … Continue reading →

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Evolution and Climate Change Update from NCSE

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Bob

From NCSE’s Weekly Evolution and Climate Change Update: DUANE GISH DIES The young-earth creationist Duane T. Gish died on March 5, 2013, at the age of 92, according to Answers in Genesis’s obituary. Born on February 17, 1921, in White … Continue reading →

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News From Oklahomans for Excellence in Science Education

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Bob

1.    JUDGE JOHN JONES TO SPEAK AT UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA. Judge Jones ruled in the now famous Kitzmiller trial in Dover, PA that intelligent design is religion and not science will give a public lecture at OU on 30 October … Continue reading →

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BILL NYE VIDEO ON CREATIONISM

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Bob

(from NCSE’s Evolution and Climate Change Update 8/31/12) A two-and-a-half-minute video with Bill Nye discussing the creationism/evolution controversy went viral, garnering over 2.5 million views in its first week on-line. Posted on August 23, 2012, on the YouTube channel of … Continue reading →

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From the OKLAHOMA EVOLUTION/CLIMATE CHANGE LIST SERVE – 22 JULY 2012

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Bob

See OESE web site for news, links, resources… and more. Need a speaker for your group or organization? Or join OESE! http://www.oklascience.org/ To subscribe to the OEDE list serve: Send message to okevol-on@okevol.talklist.com with your name.  To unsubscribe: okevol-off@okevol.talklist.com.  ————————————– … Continue reading →

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From This Weeks NCSE’s Evolution and Climate Change Update

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Bob

ONE DOWN, ONE TO GO IN OKLAHOMA Oklahoma’s Senate Bill 1742 — one of two bills attacking the teaching of evolution and of climate change active in the Oklahoma legislature during 2012 — is dead, having died in committee on … Continue reading →

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A second Oklahoma bill attacks evolution and climate change

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Bob

(from ncse.com) A bill in Oklahoma that would, if enacted, encourage teachers to present the “scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses” of “controversial” topics such as “biological evolution” and “global warming” is back from the dead. Entitled the “Scientific Education and … Continue reading →

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WHY SB 1742 WOULD BE HARMFUL TO OKLAHOMA

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Bob

(Ed. note: This analysis is reprinted from the Oklahomans For Excellence in Science Education listserve.  The OESE website is linked  in the menu to the left.  On the OESE website you can subscribe to their listserv as well as join this organization … Continue reading →

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