School boards and legislatures across the country are continuing to debate how to teach students about the origins of life on Earth. Policymakers in at least 16 states are currently examining the ...

A visitor to the "Darwin" exhibit inspects a display with illustration of animals, plants and insects during a press preview at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, in this Nov. 15, ...

When a federal court in 2005 rejected an attempt by the Dover, Pa., school board to introduce intelligent design as an alternative to evolution to explain the development of life on Earth, it sparked ...

On Wednesday, the Texas State Board of Education signed off on a preliminary version of the state's pared-down biology curriculum and voted to keep language that challenges the theory of evolution.

Cohen is the author of the new book Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's 50-Year Battle for a More Unjust America Tennessee was the center of the national debate when it prosecuted John Thomas ...

The chairwoman of Brainerd's school board this week questioned the teaching of evolution and suggested that it's incompatible with Christian beliefs. "I did have a question about evolution," Sue Kern ...

Creationists are right—in some cases. They are not right that the world is only 6,000 years old, nor that our species descended from two innocent ancestors in an Iraqi garden. They are not right when ...

Evolution is a fact of nature. Species change over time. The evidence is indisputable. Scientists have actually observed it as species evolved within our lifetimes. Bacteria, for example, have evolved ...

Evolution is a difficult concept for many students at all levels, however, a study has demonstrated a simple cost-free way to significantly improve students' understanding of evolution at the ...

Michael Reiss receives funding from Education Endowment Foundation, Royal Society of Chemistry, Royal Yachting Association and Templeton World Charity Foundation. Evolution is near universally ...