Evolution Debate News

Even 150 years after it first appeared in print, Charles Darwin's 'On The Origin of Species' still fuels clashes between scientists convinced of its truth and critics who reject its view of life without a creator.

Is Sarah Palin a creationist? An adherent to the theory of intelligent design? A conventional Christian? A Deist? Here is Palin, in her own words, writing on page 217 of her book.

Although when it comes to other people's works, William Dembski hasn't seen a problem with taking copyrighted material and using it wholesale, dubbing over a computer animated video from Harvard and XVIVO of the inner workings of a cell with his own intelligent design-based commentary , when it comes to his own work he has a different standard.

"Who is This Alien?: This Higher Power in the Universe" by Lou Barreto has recently published.

Despite Darwinists' attempts to suppress the debate over evolution, a new book about the controversial theory of intelligent design made Amazon.com's list of the year's Top 10 bestselling books in science, just as the world marks 150 years since Charles Darwin published his own theory in his landmark book On the Origin of Species.

A museum assistant looks at a skeleton at the "Darwin" exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London, November 13, 2008.

In Mark Emond's letter on evolution, he made many weak claims and accusations against Scott Elder and his Soapbox on the same subject.

An academic conference in Louisville, Kentucky, provided me with an opportunity to visit the Creation Museum in nearby Petersburg with a friend who is also an Anglican priest.

The British government said Thursday that all state primary schools will be required to teach evolution as a science subject starting in September 2011.

Have you ever had an argument or discussion where you tried to get someone to see that your point of view was the correct one? As the argument went on it was obvious that you would need some definitive proof for you to make your point and get the other person thinking the same way you do.

Last week I noted how much Stephen Meyer's book Signature in the Cell is selling and wondered whether I should start refuting it.

William Dembski, the double-PhD scholar of the intelligent design movement, has had enough with all this .

A Westlake Village actor and an evangelist minister and author teamed up Wednesday at UCLA to pass out hundreds of copies of Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species," with a special introduction on intelligent design.

Students who get a free copy of Darwin's On the Origin of Species this month might be surprised to find an introduction by intelligent design proponent Ray Comfort.

Just how wrong is creationist Ray Comfort about Darwin, evolution, the fossil record, Hitler, and more? Read our handy guide to Comfort's transgressions.

With thousands of stinging cells that can emit deadly venom from tentacles that can reach ten feet in length, the 50 or so species of box jellyfish have long been of interest to scientists and to the public. Beyond their toxicity, box jellyfish have other interesting characteristics.Some species have as many as 24 eyes, capable of sensing light and forming an image of their surroundings. Why they have complex eyes, how well they see, and what role vision plays in their mating and feeding behavior remain unknown.

The church wants us to believe that God will go out of his way to strike a blasphemer and work a week to save the soul of a murderer.

Wow. The Medved Show today went very differently than I expected. I was all prepared to talk about evolution and intelligent design; instead, Stephen Meyer of the anti-evolutionist Discovery Institute spent far more time attacking climate science than evolutionary science.

Recently I heard a speaker from Chi Alpha, a Christian college organization, lament that many students from religious backgrounds go to college and then conclude that their religious training had all been a lie.

For 150 years, Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species' has been the go-to text for understanding and teaching the principles of evolutionary biology.