Evolution

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  • "Religious belief itself is an adaptation"

    Sociobiology founder Edward O. Wilson explains why we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions, denies that "evolutionism" is a faith, and says that heaven, if it existed, would be hell.
    By Steve Paulson March 21, 2006

  • Dissecting God

    Philosopher Daniel Dennett argues that America is drowning in religion -- and that faith needs to be analyzed with the tools of science.
    By Gordy Slack February 8, 2006

  • Weird science

    Are we descendants of clay? Is rock slime related to Grandpa? A fantastic new book tours the competing theories of how life on Earth began 4 billion years ago.
    By Andrew O'Hehir October 31, 2005

  • Intelligent designer

    The chief defender of intelligent design in the Dover evolution trial insists he has science and God on his side.
    By Gordy Slack October 20, 2005

  • Checking penguins' I.D.

    Does "March of the Penguins" demonstrate intelligent design at work?
    By Aaron Kinney September 19, 2005

  • The know-nothings

    Pro-business Republicans and the religious right have joined in a frighteningly successful campaign to undermine the findings of science.
    By Andrew O'Hehir September 14, 2005

  • Letters

    Evolution: Good science, bad religion, or both? Readers respond to Andrew O'Hehir's "Priests in Lab Coats."
    August 9, 2005

  • Priests in lab coats

    Philosopher Michael Ruse is an ardent evolutionist who thinks creationism is claptrap. So why is he accusing atheistic scientists like Richard Dawkins of being as religious as born-again Bible thumpers?
    By Andrew O'Hehir August 6, 2005

  • A real monkey trial

    At Kansas' mock trial of evolution, the creationist majority flaunted its ignorance of high-school level science. How close is the religious right to bringing God into the classroom?
    By Peter Dizikes May 13, 2005

  • The new Monkey Trial

    By persuading the Dover, Pa., school board to teach creationism, Christian zealots have provoked a showdown over the status of not just evolutionary theory, but science itself.
    By Michelle Goldberg January 10, 2005

  • Invasion of the high-tech body snatchers

    Ready for infrared vision, and hearts that work better than the original? While bioethicists obsess over cloning, bioengineers will soon be able to replace every part of our bodies.
    By Alan H. Goldstein September 30, 2003

  • A textbook case of bad science

    Defenders of evolutionary theory in Texas say creation scientists are getting sneakier -- and more successful -- in getting their views into public school educational materials.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski August 20, 2003

  • Joe Conason's Journal

    Now Rumsfeld has Newt Gingrich railing against the State Department. It's time for Powell to resign.
    April 22, 2003

  • Data-mining life on earth

    Every blade of grass, every fish and fowl, slug and snail, has a place on the Web.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski October 28, 2002

  • "Of Moths and Men" by Judith Hooper

    It was a world-famous example of evolution in action, and it was rigged. How the case of the peppered moth proved that "scientific fact" sometimes isn't either.
    By Alison Motluk September 18, 2002

  • Evolution, Enron-style

    Not all fast-mutating organisms flourish. Some go extinct.
    By Amol Sarva February 13, 2002

  • "Trials of the Monkey" by Matthew Chapman

    Charles Darwin's boozy, girl-crazy great-great-grandson goes to Tennessee to sneer at the Bible-quoting locals -- and stays to learn a lesson in faith.
    By Damien Cave November 20, 2001

  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Monday, Sept. 24, 2001
    By Joyce Millman September 24, 2001

  • "Evolution"

    Hollywood cranks out an all-new monster -- a mutant amalgamation of other, better summer movies.
    By Andrew O'Hehir June 8, 2001

  • Survival of the losers

    Even Charles Darwin couldn't have predicted who would emerge from the Web's evolutionary shakeout.
    By Amol Sarva June 6, 2001

  • Louisiana calls Darwin a racist

    The state Legislature casts him in the same league as Hitler. A science educator says it's going to be a rough year for evolutionists.
    By Fiona Morgan May 4, 2001

  • Assault on evolution

    The religious right takes its best scientific shot at Darwin with "intelligent design" theory.
    By Larry Arnhart February 28, 2001

  • "The Man Who Found the Missing Link" by Pat Shipman

    A new biography recounts the story of the brilliant scientist who fought priests, politicians and jungles to prove Darwin right.
    By Edward McSweegan January 18, 2001

  • Decoding the genome

    Six new books tackle human biology's Holy Grail, but each fights its own crusade.
    By Ralph Brave January 9, 2001

  • Flameproof racism

    On the Evolutionary Psychology mailing list, dangerous ideas thrive -- without the usual online rancor and hatred.
    By Andrew Brown August 30, 2000
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