The call is out in the blogosphere and on mailing lists for a few more good scientists named Steve, Stephen, Stephanie, Stephen, Etienne, or Esteban, et al. to join Project Steve, a tongue-in-cheek response to creationists. From the web page of the National Center for Science Education:
Become an NCSE Steve!
Are you tired of being ignored by your colleagues at professional meetings?
Do your students yawn every time you begin a lecture?
Do neighbors not invite you to cocktail parties anymore because you always talk about dermestid beetles?
Well, my friend, you have the power to put a stop to that today simply by becoming an NCSE Steve. Why settle for being just another Jonathan, Michael, or William when you can be what you’ve always dreamed of being … an NCSE Steve.
To see if you qualify, just answer the following simple questions:Are you named Steve, Stephen, Steven, Esteban, Etienne, or Stephanie?Do you have a Ph.D. in biology, geology, paleontology, or a related scientific field?
Do you want the kind of success in life you always thought was reserved for the “other Steves”?
If you answered yes to all three of these questions, then you have what it takes to become an NCSE Steve!
Will becoming an NCSE Steve make a difference in your life? Just listen to these testimonials.Before I became an NCSE Steve, opportunities just never seemed to come my way. But now my department chair holds the door open for me, and brings me coffee!
–Stephanie
I must have had the worst love life in the whole field of leech systematics, but now that I’m an NCSE Steve my social life has really taken off!
–Steve
This is from the “Mario’s Entangled Bank” blog ( http://pineda-krch.com ) of Mario Pineda-Krch, a theoretical biologist at the University of California, Davis.
