Project Steve

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To counter the published lists of scientists who support creationism, Project Steve only lists scientists with the name Steve that support the theory of evolution. Guess who's list is bigger?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Steve

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1. Eugenie Scott!!!

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She rolled 18 on charisma and 18 on intelligence.

As Executive Director of the NCSE for decades she fought the fight to keep creationism out of public school biology classrooms. Part of that was the whimsical Project Steve whose purpose was to ridicule creationists' attempt to list so-called scientists who support creationism. Of course, few of them have actual science degrees, let alone advanced science degrees.

The NCSE started Project Steve, a list of scientists with doctoral degrees in science who not only support the theory of evolution, but are also named Steve (or Stephanie, or any similarly derivative name). Needless to say, the evolution supporting PhD Steves outnumber the creationists by a huge lot. And that's just the Steves!

Yes, Steven Hawking is an original NCSE Steve. So is SGU host and Yale clinical neurologist Steven Novella, and physics Nobel laureate Stephen Weinberg. (Among many, many others.)

Of course, Project Steve was named after Harvard biologist Stephen J. Gould, sadly now gone.

Eugenie Scott has since retired as executive director of the NCSE. She remains active in the skeptical movement, always promoting science education.

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2. That's great.

Well written. Have you considered adding it to Wikipedia?