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 ...

What if everything we know about the world is just a simulation? This thought-provoking question has been at the center of the Simulation Theory, a concept that has become increasingly popular in ...

When Pope Francis mentioned his belief in the theory of evolution the other day, the story got more play in the media than it probably deserved. Francis is not the first pope to express such ...

In what’s being heralded as a secular triumph, the UK government has banned the teaching of creationism as science in all existing and future academies and free schools. The new clauses, which arrived ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In a little-noticed 2012 interview, Rep. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), the front-runner in ...

Barbara Evanson’s belief that creationism should be taught in schools doesn’t change anything as far as our endorsements go. We’ve already endorsed Cindy Enos-Martinez as the more qualified candidate ...

Biologist April Maskiewicz Cordero and theologist Mark Mann from Point Loma Nazarene University sit in an interview to discuss their views about creation-evolutionism on July 11, 2019. (Addie Blacker) ...

Ask a 3-year-old why she thinks it's raining, and she might say "because the flowers are thirsty." Her brother might also tell you that trees have leaves to provide shade for people and animals. These ...

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 ...

It appears that many, perhaps most, do not understand the basics of how a theory works. Certainly, politicians feel free to disregard any and all of the accepted logic that applies to theories. The ...

Since as we observed earlier, individuals within a population, in spite of important similarities they share, are unique, it is evident that the traits exhibited by the elephants, such as ...