There has been a lot of great input from everyone about the site. Your stories on why this fight is important to you are amazing, and highlight just how broad this campaign must be. Also keep the emails, critical and encouraging alike, and the articles coming.
As for Dover, week one is over. The […]

By Erwin Chemerinsky
Today marks the launch of the Campaign to Defend the Constitution, and what a time for such a campaign. I have no doubt that when historians look back at the late 20th and early 21st century, they will say that the most important development was the rise of fundamentalism. Fundamentalists - whether […]

Here at DefCon we just held our official launch event. The event saw the release of both a letter to all 50 governors asking them to keep science curricula based on science, not religious rhetoric, and DefCon’s report “Islands of Ignorance:” The Top 10 Places Where Science Education is Under Threat.”
Speakers at the […]

There has been a great deal of media attention on the Dover, PA, intelligent design trial over the last few days. Find some of the highlights in our Newsroom.
We’ll keep updating with articles. However feel free to let us know of anything we may have missed.

As we gear up for what will undoubtedly be a defining moment in the battle between science and intelligent design next week in Dover, PA, a piece in the New York Times this week points out that this debate is by no means limited to science classrooms. Now it seems that museums across the country […]

DefCon is a new organization dedicated to confronting the power of the religious right. We are a diverse group of individuals from an array of backgrounds united by the belief that the religious right is a threat to America.
We are dealing with a powerful group driven by a specific agenda, who seek to control many […]