The sitcom star and super-Christian is giving away a new version of "On the Origin of Species," and it's got Nazis
By Mary Elizabeth Williams Sep 24, 2009
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Is the next stage in human evolution a great leap forward for the wealthy? Maybe so, if we don't fix healthcare
By Andrew Leonard
October 27, 2009
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Anthropologist Richard Wrangham has a provocative theory on human evolution. It starts with food and an open flame
By Sarah Karnasiewicz
July 29, 2009
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How I learned about my own animality (and "humanzees," Stalin and scary creationists) by living with a chimp
By Charles Siebert
July 11, 2009
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Why do we often care more about imaginary characters than real people? A new book suggests that fiction is crucial to our survival as a species.
By Laura Miller
May 18, 2009
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Although the state ruled that schools must support Darwin's theory, creationists are singing the praises of Friday's decision.
By Gordy Slack
March 28, 2009
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The state's school board is considering a new anti-evolution curriculum that could affect how the subject is taught throughout the country.
By Alex Koppelman
March 26, 2009
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Everyone, from President Obama to the GOP, wants a piece of Honest Abe on his bicentennial. Here's where Abraham Lincoln really stood on the issues.
By Michael Lind
February 12, 2009
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Piercing a Communion wafer with a nail and throwing it in the garbage, as one crusading biologist recently did, does science no favors.
By Karl Giberson
July 31, 2008
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The beauties of religion need to be saved from both the true believers and the trendy atheists, argues compelling religious scholar James Carse.
By Steve Paulson
July 21, 2008
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Of course they can, argues physicist and theologian Karl Giberson, if only many believers were more sophisticated and atheists less dogmatic.
By Vincent Rossmeier
July 1, 2008
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Conservapedia launches attack on evolution. A scientist gets annoyed
By Andrew Leonard
June 30, 2008
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Human males have yet to evolve flesh-eating sperm like some animals, but their biological imperative for sex has made them into the creatures they are today.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
June 13, 2008
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Wednesday, the Louisiana House passed a bill that would allow teachers to promote "critical thinking." Critics say it's just intelligent design in a new package.
By Vincent Rossmeier
June 12, 2008
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After their notorious legal defeat, intelligent design proponents are resurfacing with insidious new assaults on science.
By Gordy Slack
November 13, 2007
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Forget relaxing in retirement! The younger generations need you.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
October 9, 2007
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Study reveals that women prefer pinkish hues.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
August 20, 2007
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A home-grown jihadi threatens professors of evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
By Andrew Leonard
July 12, 2007
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Anthropologist Barbara J. King explains what our distant cousins can tell us about religion and why it's OK for scientists to believe in God.
By Steve Paulson
January 31, 2007
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Ronald Numbers -- a former Seventh-day Adventist and author of the definitive history of creationism -- discusses his break with the church, whether creationists are less intelligent and why Galileo wasn't really a martyr.
By Steve Paulson
January 2, 2007
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Research suggests that women prefer men whose genetic makeup differs from their own.
By Adrienne So
December 13, 2006
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Both sexes seem to be turned on by dirty movies, but that doesn't mean women are tuning in.
By Page Rockwell
November 27, 2006
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Skeptics Society founder Michael Shermer explains why Darwin matters, how believing in God is the same as believing in astrology, and why it doesn't take divine faith to experience something bigger than ourselves.
By Kevin Berger
August 23, 2006
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Francis Collins -- head of the Human Genome Project -- discusses his conversion to evangelical Christianity, why scientists do not need to be atheists, and what C.S. Lewis has to do with it.
By Steve Paulson
August 7, 2006
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More and more people are trying to trace their ancestry with a quick DNA test. A new book -- and my own experiment -- show that science can reveal some interesting things about your past, but not necessarily what you want to know.
By Laura Miller
June 26, 2006