O Lord, how manifold are thy works!
In wisdom hast thou made them all:
the earth is full of thy riches. (Psalm 104:24)

What is the NRCSE?

Often with scientific issues that have religious implications, as in debates between proponents of evolutionary science and proponents of creationism or intelligent design,  it seems as if there is a fundamental conflict between science and religion.  We in the Nebraska Religious Coalition for Science Education (NRCSE) are Nebraskans of various religious faiths who respect both science and theology.  Our mission is to proclaim the compatibility of good science (including evolution) and good theology (including creation).  The NRCSE recognizes the duty of Nebraska's schools to help students understand the best available science.  We believe that evolution can and should be widely taught in a scientifically sound manner that is neutral regarding philosophical or religious worldviews.  We are convinced that academic freedom, religious freedom, and scientific integrity are compatible.

• Why We Think Evolution and Theism are Compatible
• Our Position on Intelligent Design (ID) Theory

• BioLogos Foundation (see also their blog on Beliefnet, Science and the Sacred)
  

• Evolution Education News and Resources
• Darwin 200th Anniversary Special Reports

Latest News:

• The Great Accommodationism Debate by John Wilkins on his blog "Evolving Thoughts," June 26, 2009
  
• Science and Religion: A History of Conflict? by James Hannam, "Comment is Free" blog of  The Guardian (UK), June 14, 2009
  
• West of Eden by NCSE's Faith Project Director Peter M. J. Hess in the Washington Post's on-line "On Faith" feature June 16, 2009
  
• The Public Understanding of Evolution and the KISS Principle RealPlayer video of NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott at the Evolution 2009 conference on June 12, 2009
  
• 'Evolution is God's Work' by Anjana Ahuja, who interviewed Michael Reiss for The Times (London), June 4, 2009
  
• Augustine's Origin of Species by Alister McGrath, Christianity Today, May 8, 2009
  
• Think Again: God Talk by Stanley Fish, New York Times, May 3, 2009
  
• Teaching Science, With Faith in Mind by Arri Eisen and David Westmoreland, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 1, 2009
• God Outside the Gaps by Andrew Brown, "Comment is Free" blog of  The Guardian (UK), April 29, 2009
• Evolution is Not to Blame for Atheism, Says US Professor by Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service, March 6, 2009
• Why Christians Should Celebrate Darwin by Denis Alexander, Ekklesia, February 13, 2009
• Finding Sanctuary in Faith and Physics by Alaina G. Levine, APS Physics, February, 2009
• Vatican Buries the Hatchet with Charles Darwin by Richard Owen, The Times (London), February 11, 2009
  
• Science and Religion Don’t Have to be Enemies by Julian Baggini, The Herald (Glasgow), February 10, 2009
  
• Does the Empirical Nature of Science Contradict the Revelatory Nature of Faith?
• Seeing and Believing: The Never-Ending Attempt to Reconcile Science and Religion, and Why It is Doomed to Fail by Jerry A. Coyne, in The New Republic, February 4, 2009.
• Counter from Karl W. Giberson, author of Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution, in The Edge.
• Counter from Kenneth R. Miller, author of  Finding Darwin's God:  A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution, and Only A Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul, in The Edge.
  
• Where Faith Meets Fact: Author's Attempt to Reconcile Science and Religion is Met with Attacks from Both Camps
  by Peter Rowe, in the San Diego Union Tribune, February 2, 2009
  
• Darwin's Twin Track: 'Evolution and Emancipation', by Adrian Desmond for BBC News.
  
• Chapter 1 of 'Darwin's Sacred Cause' by Adrian Desmond and James Moore, New York Times, January 30, 2009
• Darwin: Shaped by Slavery by Adrian Desmond, The Times (London), January 22, 2009
  
• Evolutionary Creation by Denis Lamoureux – A Brief Introduction by John Lang, December 31, 2008
  
• Rabbis Back Evolution and Oppose Creationism in Letter Parallel to Christian Clergy's Statement, by Robert Mitchum of the Chicago Tribune, as carried by the Baltimore Sun, September 21, 2008.  For the Chicago Tribune link, please click here.
  
• The Church of England's web site on Darwin was launched September 15, 2008
• Evolution and Creationism, an interview of Francisco Ayala by Harvey Leifert for the HHMI Bulletin, August 2008
  
• Does Science Make Belief in God Obsolete?, the Templeton Foundation
• Response to "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" from the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
  
• Review of "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" by Kenneth R. Miller, Brown University
  
• Review of "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" by Frank Percival, Westmont College 
• Review of "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" by Jeffrey Schloss, Westmont College
  
• Expelled Exposed, from the National Center for Science Education
• Manufactroversy: The Art of Creating Controversy Where None Existed by Leah Ceccarelli, University of Washington, April 11th, 2008
  
• The New Theology by Jeremy Manier, The Chicago Tribune, January 19, 2008
  
• Science, Evolution, and Creationism, National Academies of Science, January 3, 2008
  
• Survey: 61 Percent Agree with Evolution, LiveScience, January 2, 2008