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, ...

Life on Earth originated around 3.7 billion years ago. Despite this being a crucial milestone in our planet’s history, the ...

Evolution is a hot-button issue right now, as new science standards are being developed for Minnesota’s K-12 education. If you’ve taken high school or college biology, you’ve probably been exposed to ...

It’s not often that a paper attempts to take down an entire field. Yet, this past January, that’s precisely what University of New Hampshire assistant philosophy professor Subrena Smith’s paper tried ...

Orent is an anthropologist and science writer. The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic published a "Hearing Wrap Up" in mid-July on the suppression of the lab leak hypothesis on ...

Guest post by Bill von Hippel, George Richardson, and David Buss The Thinker at the Gates of Hell Source: Rodin, Wikimedia Commons Do strong emotional responses to our article indicate that we hit a ...

Just over 100 years ago the British Association for the Advancement of Science met at Oxford, England. Chief topic of discussion was the idea that all living things had developed over a long period of ...