Is your organization standing tall for evolution? For science education? For the scientific method?

Announcing NCSE's Bumper Sticker Contest!

Our classic bumper stickers...

"Evolutionists do it with increasing complexity"

"Honk! If you understand punctuated equilibria"

...will remain in the lineup. But it's time to bring some new players onto the field.

This has been a busy year for creationists. Since January, anti-science legislators in seven states have proposed nine bills attacking evolution and evolution education. Many are so-called "academic freedom" bills, like Tennessee's HB 368, which allows teachers to "help students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught." (For general background on academic freedom acts, go here.

Niles Eldredge has been making the case for evolution—explaining, defending, and expanding the scientific account of the history of life—for over 40 years.