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 ...

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 ...

One hundred years ago, a substitute teacher in Dayton, Tenn., was charged with the crime of teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. His name was John Scopes. At the time, ...

As the colossal replica of the biblical Noah's Ark rises incongruously from the countryside of northern Kentucky, Ken Ham gives the presentation he's often repeated. The ark stretches one and a half ...

The Kentucky Tourism Development Finance Authority voted unanimously to grant the tax incentives for , the $172.5 million project. Answers in Genesis, which built Kentucky’s Creation Museum, is behind ...

ISTANBUL -- Sema Ergezen teaches biology to Turkish students interested in teaching science themselves, and she has long struggled with her students' ignorance of, and sometimes hostility to, the ...

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 ...

A recent book on evolutionary theory fails to reckon with the social side of natural selection. In 1904, thousands of indigenous people were brought to the St. Louis World’s Fair to be put on public ...

Although religion and evolutionary theory have often been at odds, it is possible for them to coexist peacefully, and, surprisingly often, they do. Most of the major world religions accept evolution ...

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

WILLIAMSTOWN, Ky. (AP) — It’s all designed to argue that the biblical story was literally true — that an ancient Noah really could have built such a sophisticated ship. WILLIAMSTOWN, Ky. (AP) — As the ...