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 ...

With the recent hullaballoo over my foray, once again, into showing how ridiculous young-Earth creationism is, and the sheer flood of comments from people who have completely and utterly missed the ...

2014-02-19T22:31:48-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/0ac/20140219223200001_hd.jpgComments from Facebook were shown about a debate between evolution and ...

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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...