Evolution

Kirk Cameron monkeys with Darwin Kirk Cameron monkeys with Darwin

The sitcom star and super-Christian is giving away a new version of "On the Origin of Species," and it's got Nazis
  • Coming up next: The super-rich cyborg overclass

    Is the next stage in human evolution a great leap forward for the wealthy? Maybe so, if we don't fix healthcare
  • How cooking makes you a man

    Anthropologist Richard Wrangham has a provocative theory on human evolution. It starts with food and an open flame
  • I'm tired of just being a man

    How I learned about my own animality (and "humanzees," Stalin and scary creationists) by living with a chimp
  • The evolutionary argument for Dr. Seuss

    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.
  • Texas on evolution: Needs further study

    Although the state ruled that schools must support Darwin's theory, creationists are singing the praises of Friday's decision.
  • Texas prepares for evolution vote with national implications

    The state's school board is considering a new anti-evolution curriculum that could affect how the subject is taught throughout the country.
  • How would Lincoln vote today?

    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.
  • What's wrong with science as religion

    Piercing a Communion wafer with a nail and throwing it in the garbage, as one crusading biologist recently did, does science no favors.
  • Religion is poetry

    The beauties of religion need to be saved from both the true believers and the trendy atheists, argues compelling religious scholar James Carse.
  • Can't Darwin and God get along?

    Of course they can, argues physicist and theologian Karl Giberson, if only many believers were more sophisticated and atheists less dogmatic.
  • Worst. Encyclopedia. Ever.

    Conservapedia launches attack on evolution. A scientist gets annoyed
  • Hard drive

    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.
  • Louisiana schools open to creationism?

    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.
  • The evolution of creationism

    After their notorious legal defeat, intelligent design proponents are resurfacing with insidious new assaults on science.
  • Is Grandma an evolutionary secret weapon?

    Forget relaxing in retirement! The younger generations need you.
  • Scientists: Chicks like pink

    Study reveals that women prefer pinkish hues.
  • American Taliban on the warpath against evolution

    A home-grown jihadi threatens professors of evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
  • God and gorillas

    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.
  • Seeing the light -- of science

    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.
  • Love, or biology?

    Research suggests that women prefer men whose genetic makeup differs from their own.
  • Why don't more women watch porn?

    Both sexes seem to be turned on by dirty movies, but that doesn't mean women are tuning in.
  • The joys of life without God

    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.
  • The believer

    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.
  • Who are you?

    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.
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