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Project Steve is a list of scientists with the given name Steven or a variation thereof (e.g., Stephanie, Stefan, Esteban, etc.) who "support evolution". It was originally created by the National Center for Science Education as a "tongue-in-cheek parody" of creationist attempts to collect a list of scientists who "doubt evolution," such as the Answers in Genesis' list of scientists who accept the biblical account of the Genesis creation narrative〔(List of living scientists who accept the biblical account of creation ) from Answers in Genesis〕 or the Discovery Institute's ''A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism''. The list pokes fun at such endeavors to make it clear that, "We did not wish to mislead the public into thinking that scientific issues are decided by who has the longer list of scientists!" It also honors Stephen Jay Gould.〔 However, at the same time the project is a genuine collection of scientists. Despite the list's restriction to only scientists with names like "Steve", which in the United States limits the list to roughly 1 percent of the total population,〔According to the United States Census, about 1.6% of males and 0.4% of females have a first name that would qualify them to sign the petition. Therefore, about 1% of all people in the United States are called Steve or some name that is close to Steve. Therefore, if one can get N scientists named Steve or something similar to endorse the petition, one might expect that roughly 100xN scientists with all kinds of names would endorse the petition.〕 Project Steve is longer and contains many more eminent scientists than any creationist list. In particular, ''Project Steve'' contains many more biologists than the creationist lists, with about 51% of the listed Steves being biologists. The "Steve-o-meter" webpage provides an updated total of scientist "Steves" who have signed the list.〔 , Project Steve has 1,382 signatories. ==Statement== The statement that signatories agree to reads: There have been some complaints that the statement left out the geological sciences, where evolution is an important principle as well. However, this oversight was noticed too late and it was decided that it would be more effort than it is worth to go back to correct it.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Project Steve」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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