Correspondent Jeffrey Brown investigates how some biology teachers are handling the hot button debate over the theory of evolution, creationism and intelligent design. On a recent morning in Danville, ...

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 ...

Kansas – the state that made national news in 1999 by banning the teaching of evolution in schools (which was later overturned)- and its conservative majority Board of Education is at it again. In ...

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 ...

A bill has been filed in the senate that would enforce a dual curriculum of creationism and the theory of evolution.

Introducing the possibility of creationism into biology classes is referred to by supporters as "teaching the controversy." (Louisiana State University evolutionary biologist Bryan Carstens, who ...

Pope Francis said this week that the Big Bang theory and the evolution of man do not contradict the role that Catholics believe God played in the creation of humankind. Speaking to the Vatican's ...

BOSTON — I don’t know whether to call this good news, but something is happening when the opponents of evolution recast themselves as defenders of academic freedom and guardians of open debate. This ...

Last month, President Bush said that it would be a good idea if something called "intelligent design" were taught along with the theory of evolution. That way, children would be exposed to "different ...

The debate over what's to be taught in public schools regarding the origin and development of humanity is not what it appears to be. The theories of evolution and creation are being juxtaposed as ...

The chair of a school board in Minnesota questioned the value of teaching evolution, because the theory was developed more than a century ago. At a Brainerd High School board meeting on September 9, ...

LONDON (RNS) — The Bible says God created the world in six days and on the seventh day he rested. But less than 10 percent of people in the U.K., including those with religious beliefs, now accept the ...