Bill Nye has said teaching creationism is bad for children. Jan. 3, 2014— -- Will Bill Nye deliver the ultimate science smackdown to creationists? Ken Ham, founder of Kentucky's Creation Museum, ...

Edward Larson, who won a Pulitzer Prize for "Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion," spoke of the "Scopes monkey trial" Tuesday at the ...

Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna Christoph Schönborn has stepped into the confused controversies surrounding evolution, and added some much needed clarity. Just enough clarity, mind you. Not too much.

The 100th anniversary is approaching of the law under which John Thomas Scopes was prosecuted and convicted in Dayton, Tennessee, in the celebrated “monkey trial.” Enacted on March 21, 1925, the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution. His nation is still feeling the reverberations today. The ...

Over at Beatrice the Biologist, our intrepid biologist/comedian Katie has created possibly my favorite video ever about debates over evolution vs. creationism. I especially like the way she represents ...

It's been a tumultuous five months in American politics since Ted Kennedy died and the long process to fill his Senate seat began. Paul Kirk was appointed to fill it in the interim, and now Democrat ...

Some Catholic theologians see no contradiction between their belief in divine creation and the theory of evolution, according to Macy Hanson's column in The State Press last Thursday. Therefore, ...

The Wire recently highlighted evolutionary psychologist Jesse Bering's explanation at Slate of a claim that women have evolved to defend themselves against rape, given the disastrous toll rape ...