According to a Dec. 2004 Gallup poll, “only slightly more than one third of Americans believe Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution is supported by fact.” We are seeing a great debate in the Kansas ...

How did we get here? The stork story is entertaining, but it is useless in any lasting sense. Observation and careful research, alternatively, has yielded a wealth of useful knowledge and technologies ...

Last week, Minnesota Education Commissioner Cheri Pierson Yecke announced that biological evolution would be an essential topic of study in Minnesota’s high schools. Yecke also suggested that in order ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Arkansas public schools could be impacted by two new bills that were passed in the House on Wednesday. Rep. Mary Bentley sponsored HB 1704 which would allow for teachers to use ...

Like the evolution stickers he was writing about, Brian Schmalzbach's column ("Liberals in Cobb County," Feb. 15) was a violation of liberal tenets. By calling evolution a theory, not fact, the ...

A familiar debate over the origins of life—this time centered on a science-textbook sticker—is playing out in a Georgia courtroom, where parents are challenging their school district’s written ...

How would you react if I said, “If you meet somebody who claims to believe in evolution, the person is ignorant, stupid or insane”?Wouldn’t that be a little narrow-minded? This is said all the time, ...

Textbooks—teachers’ road maps through the curriculum—generally do a respectable job of covering evolution, according to experts who have reviewed the books, though the thick volumes tend to be weaker ...