July 3, 2024
Multiple controversies over the teaching of evolution in public schools have rocked the nation over the past century. Evolution’s foes have consistently used the same arguments, but their ambitions have shifted: from outright banning the teaching of evolution to “balancing” it with a supposed alternative to blunting it through claims that evolution is scientifically disputed.
Join us on Thursday, July 11, at 7:00 p.m. ET for a Skeptical Inquirer Presents livestream with CSI Fellow Glenn Branch of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE). Branch will discuss the causes, history, and consequences of these various controversies. He’ll outline the encouraging developments in evolution education over the past fifteen years as revealed by a study conducted by NCSE and discuss what skeptics have done—and can continue to do—to help.
This live Zoom event is free, but advance registration is required, so sign up today.
Glenn Branch is deputy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit organization that defends the integrity of American science education against ideological interference. His numerous articles on evolution education and climate education—and obstacles to them—have appeared in Scientific American, American Educator, The American Biology Teacher, and the Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics. Branch is the coeditor, with Eugenie C. Scott, of Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design Is Wrong for Our Schools (2006). He received the Evolution Education Award for 2020 from the National Association of Biology Teachers.