One in eight U.S. high school teachers presents creationism as a valid alternative to evolution, says a poll published in the Public Library of Science Biology. Of more than 900 teachers who responded ...

Science curriculum featured prominently in the debate between Bill Nye and Creation Museum founder Ken Ham held Tuesday. As I wrote earlier this week, Nye defended science’s grounding in facts, while ...

Today marks the tenth anniversary of the judge's decision in the 'infamous' Kitzmiller v. Dover trial, but creationists in the U.S. continue to promote legislation to support the teaching of ...

Dan Kahan over at the invaluable Yale Cultural Cognition Project has conducted an interesting poll of 2,000 Americans inquiring into what they know and believe about creationism and evolutionary ...

In a sane world, the ringing denunciation of intelligent design and creationist “science” delivered by a federal judge in 2005 would have eradicated these concepts from the schoolroom. District Judge ...

A Colorado charter school quickly backed down from teaching creationism to eighth graders, but the incident illustrates that ...

Call it survival of the fittest policy. “It is one thing to say that two bills have some resemblances, and another thing to say that bill X was copied from bill Y with greater than 90 percent ...

The forces opposed to teaching evolution in U.S. public schools just got a new reason to resent the bedrock scientific theory: A researcher has used the principles of evolutionary biology to show that ...

Fundamentalists are vowing to make a last stand for God in Dayton, Tenn., on July 14 when a new statue will be installed on the courthouse lawn. Going up alongside a likeness of William Jennings Bryan ...

, Charles Darwin first published his theory of evolution through natural selection, which has become a foundation stone for modern society's understanding of our origins and biology in general. Over ...

After two weeks of hype about a football game that turned out to be far less exciting than expected and after what feels like two months' worth of reports about wicked winter weather, it's nice to ...