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WASHINGTON -- The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and Institute of Medicine (IOM) today released SCIENCE, EVOLUTION, AND CREATIONISM, a book designed to give the public a comprehensive and ...
Only a slight majority, 51 percent, reported that they emphasized the broad scientific consensus on evolution while not giving any credence to creationism, as if to suggest no progress in the 67 ...
A new trend at scientific conference poster sessions is waking scientists up to the power of good design. But experts in visual communication think that we're only seeing the beginning of a new ...
And while in 2007 a bare majority of these teachers reported that they emphasized the scientific credibility of evolution while not emphasizing creationism as a scientifically credible alternative ...
When explaining human origins, a staggering 42% of all Americans still ascribe to a creationist interpretation—despite the fact that there’s plenty of ...
In a recent survey of 926 public high school biology teachers across the nation, only 28 percent of teachers taught evolution as a well-supported fundamental idea of science.
In 1925, a high school science teacher named John Scopes was arrested, tried, and convicted of the crime of teaching evolution to his class in a public school in the state of Tennessee. Under a ...
A poster needs to incorporate principles of scientific communication and graphic design in order to be effective. Posters Are Not Big Slides The poster serves as a visual summary of a research project ...
2006 results from Michigan State University via Science, vol 313. A third of Americans (33%) reject the idea of evolution, asserting that “humans and other living things have existed in their ...
Because of evolution and the related nature of all life, species don’t really exist in nature, the term is entirely subjective. In other words, a “species” is whatever humans say it is.