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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two House Republicans are citing landmark education reform legislation in pressing for the adoption of a school science curriculum in their home state of Ohio that includes the teaching of an ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. National Academy of Sciences on Thursday issued a spirited defense of evolution as the bedrock principle of modern biology, arguing that it, not creationism, must be taught in ...

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 ...

Call it survival of the fittest policy. “It is one thing to say that two bills have some resemblances, and another thing to say that bill X was copied from bill Y with greater than 90 percent ...

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

PHOENIX – The teaching of evolution in Arizona classrooms could be taking a big step backward. School Superintendent Diane Douglas is apparently behind a rewrite of science standards for all Arizona ...