The National Center for Science Education ( NCSE ) is a non-profit organization based in Oakland, California affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

CAMEL is a three – year effort funded by the National Science Foundation, though the National Council for Science and Environment ( NCSE ).

Bartelt wrote that the copy she viewed is on file at the National Center for Science Education ( NCSE ), but the organization cannot distribute it due to copyright restrictions.

Eugenie Carol Scott ( born October 24, 1945 ) is an American physical anthropologist who has been the executive director of the National Center for Science Education ( NCSE ) since 1987.

NCSE is religiously neutral and has members who hold a variety of faith-based beliefs or no beliefs at all.

This grew into volunteer networks in most states, with the Creation / Evolution Newsletter interconnecting them, which was incorporated as the NCSE in 1983.

In 2003, the NCSE gained international attention with Project Steve.

The Board of Directors and official supporters, as explained by NCSE, " reflects our scientific roots.

* National Center for Science Education ( NCSE )

The National Center for Science Education arranged a campaign at colleges across the US to distribute an analysis of the Comfort introduction, a one page flier and " the NCSE Safety Bookmark " in the shape of a banana, a reference to Comfort's use of a banana in one of his arguments for the existence of God.

The National Center for Science Education ( NCSE ) acted as consultants for the plaintiffs.

The first media coverage included articles in the Washington Times, Science, the Oakland Tribune and an interview of NCSE director Eugenie Scott by Australian science journalist and radio broadcaster Robyn Williams for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ’ s radio show, " The Science Show ".

* A brief history of creationism from the Middle Ages to " Creation Science " NCSE

The NCSE acts as a central information and resource clearinghouse, and helps to coordinate the activities of people fighting creationists.

Consequently, the NCSE also opposes intelligent design and other " alternatives " to evolution because they are misleading euphemisms for creationism.

The NCSE offers a variety of lecturers, including biologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and theologians, for topics relating to evolution, science, and education.

In 2005 the NCSE assisted the plaintiffs in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, the most prominent case testing the constitutionality of intelligent design in public school science classes, and put their extensive library of creationist materials at the plaintiffs ' disposal.

Nick Matzke, the NCSE's Public Information Project Director at the time, served as liaison to the legal team, and was responsible for uncovering the substitution of " intelligent design " for " creationism " within drafts of Of Pandas and People, which became a devastating part of the testimony of Barbara Forrest ( also an NCSE Director ), and was cited extensively in Judge John E. Jones III's decision.

In April 2008, the NCSE launched " Expelled Exposed ," a website critical of the film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed starring Ben Stein.

In 2012, The NCSE announced they would be engaged in efforts to keep climate change education, and global warming issues, safe from threats from special interests.

Scott appeared on Uncommon Knowledge, as NCSE spokesperson, twice in 2001 debating intelligent design creationist William A. Dembski.

The project provides resources, training, and on – line professional networking opportunities for students and faculty engaged in studying climate change, using cyber – infrastructure built for the NCSE ’ s Encyclopedia of Earth.

Nevertheless, both Scott and the NCSE are criticized as being " atheistic " by creationist groups.

Cutler J. Cleveland, NCSE, Washington DC

" Krauss made the actual announcement and directed the reporters to NCSE Director Eugenie Scott, who was sitting in the audience in the front row.

As the news of Project Steve spread by word-of-mouth, ever-increasing numbers of Steves contacted the NCSE, and the list continued to grow.

As Project Steve reached the 400 scientist mark, the NCSE decided to offer a commemorative novelty Project Steve t-shirt.

In general, there is no society so secularized as to be completely without religiously inspired transcendental ends.

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For, the state may have the power to put a fatwā in effect, but that does not mean that the fatwā is to be religiously accepted by all.

Yet, this would not mean that the Muslims in that nation has to agree with that fatwā, or that the fatwā is religiously binding for them.

Though gematria is most often used to calculate the values of individual words, psukim ( Biblical verses ), Talmudical aphorisms, sentences from the standard Jewish prayers, personal, angelic and Godly names, and other religiously significant material, Kabbalists use them often for arbitrary phrases and, occasionally, for various languages.

Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, a Lebanese political analyst, argues that although Zionism has influenced Hezbollah's anti-Judaism, " it is not contingent upon it " because Hezbollah's hatred of Jews is more religiously motivated than politically motivated.

" The rise of Christian Zionism — that is, religiously motivated Christian interest and support for the state of Israel — along with a growth of philo-Semitism ( love of the Jewish people ) has increased interest among American Evangelicals in Judaism, especially areas of commonality with their own beliefs, see also Jerusalem in Christianity.

He recognised that religious labels held no value and it is the deeds of human that will be judged in the hereafter what we call ourselves religiously holds no value.

Sri Lanka is ethnically, linguistically, and religiously diverse.

Mount Sinai is one of the most religiously significant places in Abrahamic faiths.

This group is noted as being some of the more religiously observant of the hijackers.

Tajikistan is the only Central Asian country in which a religiously affiliated political party is represented in Parliament.

Attending a Seder and eating matza on Passover is a widespread custom in the Jewish community, even among those who are not religiously observant.

India is culturally, linguistically, religiously and to a certain extent, ethnically, the most diverse country in the world.

The population of Freetown is ethnically, culturally, and religiously diverse among muslims and christians.

Portugal is a fairly linguistically and religiously homogeneous country.

Likewise, these Traditional Catholic religious observances may further be understood from Cultural Catholicism in Cajun-Creole Louisiana by Marcia Gaudet which tells us that such traditional religious observances, although they may not be " strictly theological and liturgical forms ", are still integral and necessary to many and remain religiously valid as " unofficial religious customs and traditions are certainly a part of Roman Catholicism as it is practiced ".

Each parish strives to come up with the most artistically and religiously evocative arrangement in which the Blessed Sacrament, draped in a filmy veil, is prominently displayed.

99 % of the population is classified ethnically as Arab-Berber and religiously as Sunni Muslim 96 %, the few non-Sunni Muslims are mainly Ibadis 1. 3 % from the M ' Zab valley ( See Islam in Algeria ).

It is said that those who walk under the clock will not graduate on time, and some students believe in this almost religiously, avoiding the bricks around the clock tower as well.

The borough of Ealing is both religiously and ethnically diverse, similar to the other boroughs in the west London area.