Creationism

Forty-six percent of Americans believe that God created humans in their present form within ... despite being at odds with substantial scientific evidence that humans evolved over millions of years. The poll — based on telephone interviews of a random ...  

This chart should be of concern to those of us who prefer science to superstition. Steve Benen EXPLAINS: [T]he more politically conservative you are, the more likely you are to believe the creationist argument. The more educated you are, the more likely ...  

The percentage of Americans who believe God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years is about the same as it was 30 years ago, a new survey indicates. Today, 46 percent of Americans accept this creationist explanation ...  

The percentage of Americans who believe God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years is about the same as it was 30 years ago, a new survey indicates. Today, 46 percent of Americans accept this creationist explanation for human ...  

Was Darwin's theory of evolution merely an idea whose time had come?There may be no such thing as originality. In the fourth edition of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin added a historical sketch to recognise those he considered had anticipated his great evolutionary idea. In a footnote he remarked on "the manner in which similar views arise at about the same time". He could have been referring to Alfred Russel Wallace, who had...  

Inspired by a 2009 colloquium on microbial evolution convened at the Galapagos Islands, a new book from ASM Press, Microbes and Evolution: The World That Darwin Never Saw celebrates Charles Darwin and his landmark publication On the Origin of Species. The editors compiled 40 first-person essays, written by microbiologists with a passion for evolutionary biology, to illuminate how each scientist's thinking and career paths in science were...  

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Supporters of the theory of evolution argue that dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago. Any reports of dinosaurs in recent history would of course be a major red flag for their theory. Amazingly, history records the existence of ...  

I am one of the aforementioned people who is on the line between creationism and evolution. I grew up in a household which was not religious, and as such I always believed in evolution, as it was based in science and seemed pretty reasonable. But ...  

It's always amusing to see creationists try to explain why Charles Darwin was wrong, especially when they make up lists of reasons "Darwin's theory of evolution does not hold up to scientific scrutiny." These are always people who wouldn't know what scientific scrutiny was if it knocked them immobile with a carefully measured dose of Conus snail toxin, strapped them to an operating table, and pumped high-intensity Science directly into their...  

David Coppedge had a job most computer experts would kill for. He worked for NASA as a computer specialist, as a team leader on the Cassini mission, oriented towards the exploration of Saturn. Coppedge is also a Creationist, though, and he claims that this got him fired after 15 years on the job. Of course, [...]  

I’m not talking about creationists, that goes without saying. I’m talking about the fact that a very high percentage of arguments by people who claim that evolution and religion are compatible are in fact nonsense. Via Jerry Coyne, an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education that made me lose my faith in humanity just [...]  

Constitutional law since the 1960s has made it clear that legislatures and other governmental authorities responsible for public schools cannot forbid the teaching of evolution and cannot require equal treatment for creationism, even when it is ...  

In the Kitzmiller v. Dover (Penn.) School District trial (2005), a federal judge found "overwhelming evidence" intelligent design "is a religious view, a mere re-labeling of creationism, and not a scientific theory." Tennessee's law never ...  

Libby seems to have things backwards. It’s not that “we know the Bible is true because young earth creationism is true,” but rather because the Bible is true we can believe what God said in Genesis about the time frame in which He created. It seems ...