Robert T. Pennock is professor of philosophy, computer science, and EEBB at Michigan State University and author of the books Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism and Intelligent ...

ACLU Position Statement on "Creation-science" For seventy-five years, the American Civil Liberties Union has been dedicated to upholding First Amendment protections of civil liberties. Consistent with ...

PETERSBURG, KENTUCKY—A brightly lit auditorium was packed with young adults wearing bow-ties, young-Earth creationists, and a gaggle of media there to maybe see sparks fly. The sparks could have been ...

John E. Taylor does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever-changing guises Professors routinely give ...

Chris Mulherin is a Fellow of ISCAST, the Institute for the Study of Christianity in an Age of Science and Technology, and acts as a consultant to that organisation. John Long provoked a comments ...

Twenty years ago, on June 19, 1987, the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that dramatically reshaped the debate over teaching evolution in public schools. In Edwards v. Aguillard, the high court ...

HE SIGNED THE BILL BUT DIDN’T READ IT FIRST: Gov. Frank White, who defeated Bill Clinton for governor in 1980, was famously drawn holding a banana by cartoonist George Fisher for his promotion of ...

Irony of ironies, creationism has evolved. In a sense, it had to: In 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law that required the teaching of so-called creation science whenever a grade ...

It’s rare for a philosopher to give expert testimony in a court case, but that’s where Michael Ruse, a young professor from the University of Guelph, in Ontario, found himself in late 1981. The state ...