Can we learn from creationists – people who deny evolution? I think so. It is not enough to say, as Richard Dawkins notoriously did: “If you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that ...

If you follow the news about culture wars, evolution, and creationism, you’ve probably seen it by now. Earlier this fall, U.S. Rep. Paul C. Broun Jr., Republican of Georgia who ran unopposed for ...

The majority of creationists freely admit the existence of biological variation, adaptation and speciation. But, how do they reconcile this with their rejection of evolution? A former young-Earth ...

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 ...

Creationism is back in the news, following the Ken Ham/Bill Nye debate and the recently released HBO documentary, “Questioning Darwin.” Many writers, including myself, have argued that creationism is ...

Bill Nye enthusiastically greets students and faculty at Cal State Fullerton in California earlier this year. Leonard Ortiz/ZUMA Press/Corbis Evolution has become a bad word in some households. To the ...

Ever since the birth of evolutionary theory, some supporters have ventured beyond their research and adopted progressive ideologies that compete with religious worldviews. That helps explain why ...

Make no mistake, "Creation Science" is a joke and most creationists have a terribly misguided idea about what the theory of evolution is, much less the evidence for or against it. Evolutionary theory ...

Commentator and rock demigod James Poulos cut to the quick in the debate on "creation" earlier this week between the pseudoscience peddler Ken Ham and the pop-science celebra-geek Bill Nye. Too true.

Creationists are accusing astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s reboot of “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” of being scientifically unbalanced because it doesn’t represent their beliefs. Right Wing Watch ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

The creationists didn’t win Friday when the State Board of Education took up new biology textbooks in an ideologically fraught, historically contentious adoption process. Most of the materials sailed ...