Today marks the tenth anniversary of the judge's decision in the 'infamous' Kitzmiller v. Dover trial, but creationists in the U.S. continue to promote legislation to support the teaching of ...

One in eight instructors teach creationism as science, researchers say. May 21, 2008 — -- Despite a court-ordered ban on the teaching of creationism in U.S. schools, about one in eight ...

A large, publicly funded charter school system in Texas is teaching creationism to its students, Zack Kopplin recently reported in Slate. Creationist teachers don’t even need to be sneaky about it—the ...

In a sane world, the ringing denunciation of intelligent design and creationist “science” delivered by a federal judge in 2005 would have eradicated these concepts from the schoolroom. District Judge ...

After two weeks of hype about a football game that turned out to be far less exciting than expected and after what feels like two months' worth of reports about wicked winter weather, it's nice to ...

Americans do not believe that humans evolved, and the vast majority says that even if they evolved, God guided the process. Just 13 percent say that God was not involved. But most would not substitute ...

Christians who take the Bible literally believe the world was created by God in seven days. In recent years, some Christians have put forward the idea of an 'intelligent designer' as an alternative to ...

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Richard B. Katskee is assistant legal director at Americans United for Separation of Church and State in Washington, D.C. Should we teach creationism in public-school science classes? Of course we ...

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 ...

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Does it damage children to teach them biblical creationism? What are the costs of denying evolution, one of biology's core tenets? Those questions were asked Tuesday night, in a live debate between ...