By Debra Shapiro
Posted on 2008-03-28
Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, told a packed room of educators that “it is their duty” to step in when they discover a colleague who is teaching creationist theory in a science classroom. Scott detailed the many ways creationists are continuing to denigrate evolution in the wake of the 2005 Kitsmiller v. Dover trial. She presented a variety of resources for supporting the teaching of evolution, including NCSE’s new Facebook page.
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