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 ...

The debate about how humans came into being includes references to the Bible, left, and Charles Darwin (1809-1882), a British naturalist who developed a theory of evolution to explain biological ...

Creationism — the belief that all life on Earth came from a divine hand, as described in the Book of Genesis — is a single concept with many subsects. Creationists divide roughly into two camps: "old ...

A remarkable event happened in the 1980s on the University of Florida campus: a public debate on evolution vs. creation between two intellectual heavyweights on the UF faculty. Representing the ...

A view of the landmark 'Monkey Trial' of John Thomas Scopes in Dayton, Tenn., July 15, 1925. The controversial trial between religion and state determined how evolution would be taught in schools. So, ...

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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 ...

The anniversary of Darwin's birth occasions an examination of evolution's ideological counterpart: creationism. Creationism is the view that the Bible is literally true and humans and the universe ...

I’ve enjoyed reading the recent evolution versus creationism discourse in the Daily. It reminds me of the expression, “Anyone can have a theory; wake me up when you find the truth.” The tendency for ...

Recently, when the Alabama State Department of Education - which is composed of a group of ignorant, and scientifically illiterate Christians geniuses - decided to keep their erroneous and absurd ...

"Intelligent design," the notion that life on earth was authored by a supernatural being, came up lemons this week in a Pennsylvania federal court. Or rather, the Dover public school district's ...