The Coalition for Excellence in Science and Math Education
(CESE) has been directly involved in the promotion of the
teaching of the Theory of Evolution since 1997. CESE encourages
and supports all efforts to promote sound science teaching and
curriculum in American Public schools while opposing any attempt
to undermine that purpose. CESE recognizes that the United
States of America is severely underperforming compared with the
rest of the industrialized nations of the world in science, math
and engineering education and literacy. The scientific literacy
of the general American population is being further eroded by
the attempts of a small, but highly motivated and relatively
well financed group of mostly religiously driven people. These
people denounce the Theory of Evolution and would substitute a
non-scientific, supernatural explanation of the origins of life
forms on earth. This explanation is called creationism. Other
forms of creationism include creation science or a recent
variant called intelligent des