Evolution Debate News

Deep under the ocean, there is a species of crab that eats trees. The crab survives by eating wood that has sunk to the ocean floor, comprising trunks and leaves swept into the sea, as well as the odd shipwreck.

The churches erected in the name of God will ere long be tombstones to his, memory.

Penguins that died 44,000 years ago in Antarctica have provided extraordinary frozen DNA samples that challenge the accuracy of traditional genetic aging measurements, and suggest those approaches have been routinely underestimating the age of many specimens by 200 to 600 percent.

In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day.

Two recent news items report that creationism is on the rise around the world. The first, a survey conducted by a UK-based market research company, asked 11,768 adults from 10 countries if they thought evolutionary theories should be taught in science lessons in schools together with other possible perspectives, such as intelligent design and ...

The teaching of evolution in primary schools will be an important defence against the ignorance of intelligent design It's a great birthday present for Darwin in his 200th anniversary year.

Richard Carrier, an independent scholar with a Ph.D. in Ancient History from Columbia University, gave a talk this morning to the Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix titled "Christianity and Science ." He argued that there was a creation/evolution debate in ancient Rome that had interesting similarities and differences to the current ...

The government is ready to put evolution on the primary curriculum for the first time after years of lobbying by senior scientists.

It is unfortunate, in some ways, that one of the world's foremost explainers of the theory of evolution also is one of the world's most notorious atheists.

Two of my favorite things about blogging are reading comments and talking to my readers, especially when it leads to a fun and engaging debate. However, some of the replies I get just beg for the kind of response that can only be done in a full blown post. Previously, it was a comment about alternative medicine that managed to cram virtually every pro-quackery cliché out there into a few sentences and an unintentionally ironic set of anti-science fallacies which epitomized most creationist arguments. And now comes this little tirade which would make the ghost of Albert Einstein’s jaw not just drop, but fall off its hinges if he were to come across it.

This was the last of three October hearing sessions. The next sessions are scheduled for November 17-19. The highlight of today was testimony by Taylor Strack, a student in Freshwater's class, who corroborated Zach Dennis' testimony about how the students' arms were positioned and what stopped the shock that Freshwater was supplying via the Tesla ...

Kirk Cameron, best known for his role in the 1980s sitcom Growing Pains , now spends much of his time advocating for far-right Christian evangelical causes.

The cause of this particular break-up? A shift in wing color and mate preference.Our paper provides a unique glimpse into the earliest stage of ecological speciation, where natural selection to fit the environment causes the same trait in the same population to be pushed in two different directions," says Marcus Kronforst, a Bauer Fellow in the Center for Systems Biology at Harvard University who received his doctor's degree at The University of Texas at Austin. "If this trait is also involved in reproduction, this process can have a side effect of causing the divergent subpopulations to no longer interbreed. This appears to be the process that is just beginning among Heliconius butterflies in Ecuador."

The following has appeared in the October edition of the Newsletter of the History of Science Society .

By forcing bacteria to evolve in ever-changing conditions, scientists have induced a behavior in which colonies formed by microbes with identical genes take radically different forms, as if one sibling in a set of identical quadruplets could sprout gills.

In the 150 years since the publication of Charles Darwin's landmark book, "On the Origin of Species," researchers have accrued massive amounts of evidence in support of evolution and the mechanics behind the process.

A painstaking analysis of thousands of genes and the proteins they encode shows that human beings are biologically complex, at least in part, because of the way humans evolved to cope with redundancies arising from duplicate genes.

Astronomers and physicists who feel motivated to rationalize their way out of the religious implications ofA the "Big Bang," typically conjure up unsubstantiated theories divorced from the scientific rigor they claim to champion.

Life is not a naturalistic phenomenon with unlimited evolutionary potential as Darwin proposed.

Believers in Intelligent Design have often been scorned as being opposed to science, but science itself is showing that it is the evolutionists who are opposed to rational inquiry.