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The '''National Center for Science Education''' (NCSE) is a not-for-profit organization that advocates teaching the [[theory of evolution]] in [[U.S.]] [[public school]]s, to the exclusion of [[scientific creationism]] and [[intelligent design]], which it erroneously contends is a form of [[creationism]]. | The '''National Center for Science Education''' (NCSE) is a not-for-profit organization that advocates teaching the [[theory of evolution]] in [[U.S.]] [[public school]]s, to the exclusion of [[scientific creationism]] and [[intelligent design]], which it erroneously contends is a form of [[creationism]]. | ||
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| + | The NCSE is responsible for "[[Project Steve]]", a propaganda campaign based on a logically-fallacious ''[[Logical fallacies#Proof by numbers|argument ad populum]]''. | ||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
*[http://www.natcenscied.org/ National Center for Science Education] | *[http://www.natcenscied.org/ National Center for Science Education] | ||
[[category:Political Organizations]] | [[category:Political Organizations]] | ||
Revision as of 14:50, December 8, 2008
The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) is a not-for-profit organization that advocates teaching the theory of evolution in U.S. public schools, to the exclusion of scientific creationism and intelligent design, which it erroneously contends is a form of creationism.
The NCSE is responsible for "Project Steve", a propaganda campaign based on a logically-fallacious argument ad populum.