Freeform: Twists and Turns in Teaching Evolution over the Years

Freethought Freeform 

Twists and Turns in Teaching Evolution over the Years

Invited Speaker: Glenn Branch

Thur, Jan 9, 2025, 7 pm - 8:30 pm

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Controversies over the teaching of evolution in the 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 banning the teaching of evolution through balancing it with a supposed alternative to blunting it by misrepresenting evolution as scientifically controversial. In his talk, Glenn Branch will discuss the causes, history, and consequences of these controversies, with a special emphasis on events in Pennsylvania.

Glenn Branch: "Twists and Turns in Teaching Evolution over the Years", American Humanist Assocation Annual Conference, 2021

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. He is the author of numerous articles on evolution education and climate education, and the co-editor, 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. He studies the flat-earth movement avocationally.

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