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 ...

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 ...

Here are your responses to our Facebook question of the week, “If you were called upon to write textbooks for Texas public school children, how would you handle the debate over creationism and ...

THERE is much to be said for the method adopted by the editor of associating short essays on different aspects of evolution, each written by a specialist, as a body of evidence designed to appeal to ...

We won’t achieve perfect unanimity on every contested topic. Not long ago a pastor friend called, asking for help. “I’m preaching through Genesis 1–11,” he said, “and I need some advice on the whole ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American More than a century and a half after Charles ...