Adam Laats is a historian teaching at Binghamton University, specializing in the intersection of culture wars and education. He has a special gift for critically examining the positions of religious ...

Evolution supporters argue: Courts have affirmed evolution's place in education. Creationism is just a belief, not based on empirical data, and not testable. Creationism undermines critical thinking ...

Many high school teachers are failing to teach their students evolution, widening the learning gap between high school and college biology, an Ohio State professor says. The Jan. 28 edition of Science ...

We are writing in response to, "Considering creationism offers interesting insight"(CT, Feb. 19). The major problem with this column was the liberal use of the terms "creationism" and "evolution" ...

Did modern life on Earth evolve over millions of years, or was it created in the blink of an eye by God? That's the question at the core of a debate tonight (Feb. 4) between popular science ...

Where did we come from? Why am I here? What's your purpose in life? These are important questions. They're so important that people have posed these questions for thousands of years and revisit them ...

Since even before John Scopes’ famous “monkey trial” in 1925, the acceptance of evolution in American schoolhouses has been uneasy. Elsewhere, however, Charles Darwin’s famous theory is taught with ...

Correspondent Jeffrey Brown investigates how some biology teachers are handling the hot button debate over the theory of evolution, creationism and intelligent design. On a recent morning in Danville, ...

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in American history. A local substitute teacher, John Scopes, was charged with ...

Using the MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have produced the first complete three-dimensional view of the famous Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula, Messier 16.

Where did we come from? Why am I here? What's your purpose in life? These are important questions. They're so important that people have posed these questions for thousands of years and revisit them ...