He has a special gift for critically examining the positions of religious conservatives with insight and understanding, and that gift is on display in his most recent book, Creationism USA.

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 ...

Strictly defined, creationism is based on a literal reading of the Bible's Book of Genesis, which describes the creation of the world and all the life in it over a period of six days.

On the face of it these two should not even be argued in the same breath. After all “creationism” as the name suggests should focus on how life was created or the origins of life if you will.

More than a century and a half after the publication of Charles Darwin's ground-breaking book On the Origin of Species, the theory of evolution through natural selection has been tested and ...

Forget all the arguments about evolution versus creationism and the natural versus the spiritual. Science and religion share plenty of middle ground, according to two priests who have just penned ...

Rick Homesly is on a crusade against those who dispute the biblical account of creation. “It’s not just anti-evolution, it’s pro-truth,” Homesly says about his effort. Most … ...

I recently received an e-mail from a woman who took strong exception to my February column, in which I suggested that Tennyson was dead wrong when in 1842, he predicted peace and world government. She ...

The Scopes trial did not go beyond Tennessee but the evolution versus creation, science versus religion debate raged on. It was not until 1968 that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the matter.