School boards and legislatures across the country are continuing to debate how to teach students about the origins of life on Earth. Policymakers in at least 16 states are currently examining the ...

Two House Republicans are citing landmark education reform legislation in pressing for the adoption of a school science curriculum in their home state of Ohio that includes the teaching of an ...

The chairwoman of Brainerd's school board this week questioned the teaching of evolution and suggested that it's incompatible with Christian beliefs. "I did have a question about evolution," Sue Kern ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. National Academy of Sciences on Thursday issued a spirited defense of evolution as the bedrock principle of modern biology, arguing that it, not creationism, must be taught in ...

A visitor to the "Darwin" exhibit inspects a display with illustration of animals, plants and insects during a press preview at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, in this Nov. 15, ...

Whenever evolution and education are mentioned together in my circles, it is usually to discuss teaching evolution and keeping creationism out of public school classrooms. But evolution has an even ...

Michael Reiss receives funding from Education Endowment Foundation, Royal Society of Chemistry, Royal Yachting Association and Templeton World Charity Foundation. Evolution is near universally ...

Regarding Tuesday's City and State cover article "Most Texas profs support no limits on evolution teaching / 98% in survey against politics in science education": As a scientist, an educator and a ...

The forces seeking to subject the theory of evolution to greater criticism tasted both victory and defeat last week. Kansas officials approved an overhaul of their state science standards to do just ...

High school teachers appear to be a little averse to teaching evolutionary theory in their classrooms. A representative research survey conducted by Penn State professors Michael Berkman and Eric ...

Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby. Masterpiece Cakeshop vs. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Obergefell vs. Hodges. Supreme Court cases involving the role of religious beliefs in civic life have repeatedly ...

Randy Moore, professor of biology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Eighty years ago this month, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., played host to an unforgettable fight that captivated the nation: ...