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Project Steve is a propaganda campaign started in 2003 by the anti-creationist group the National Center for Science Education (NCSE). It attempts to promote the validity of evolution by means of a logically-fallacious argument ad populum. Project Steve is named after the late Stephen Jay Gould, and is a list of nearly 1000 scientists named Steve or variations thereof (including Stephanie) who agree with a statement supporting evolution. Approximately 1% of U.S. residents have first names that qualify. The New York Times reported in 2006 that 54 percent of the then 700+ Steves work in biology.

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  • Project Steve is a propaganda campaign started in 2003 by the anti-creationist group the National Center for Science Education (NCSE). It attempts to promote the validity of evolution by means of a logically-fallacious argument ad populum. Project Steve is named after the late Stephen Jay Gould, and is a list of nearly 1000 scientists named Steve or variations thereof (including Stephanie) who agree with a statement supporting evolution. Approximately 1% of U.S. residents have first names that qualify. The New York Times reported in 2006 that 54 percent of the then 700+ Steves work in biology.
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  • Project Steve is a propaganda campaign started in 2003 by the anti-creationist group the National Center for Science Education (NCSE). It attempts to promote the validity of evolution by means of a logically-fallacious argument ad populum. Project Steve is named after the late Stephen Jay Gould, and is a list of nearly 1000 scientists named Steve or variations thereof (including Stephanie) who agree with a statement supporting evolution. Approximately 1% of U.S. residents have first names that qualify. The New York Times reported in 2006 that 54 percent of the then 700+ Steves work in biology. The NCSE claims that the list is a "tongue-in-cheek" response to creationist and intelligent design lists which "try to convince the public that evolution is somehow being rejected by scientists". However, such lists are actually rebuttals to earlier argument ad populum evolutionist claims that all scientists accept evolution, or that creationists don't have scientific qualifications.
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