Teaching creationism in Texas public schools may become illegal next year. In September, a group of educators chosen by the Texas Education Agency to streamline the state’s science curriculum ...

Today marks the tenth anniversary of the judge's decision in the 'infamous' Kitzmiller v. Dover trial, but creationists in the U.S. continue to promote legislation to support the teaching of ...

Creationism is not science, but science class is the perfect place to discuss creationism. Honey, who teaches critical thinking and evolutionary behavior, once avoided discussing creationism in class, ...

More than 150 years since Darwin published his Theory of Evolution, it still has the capacity to stir controversy. And while schools have always been a key battleground, teaching creationism in ...

In the ongoing conflict between science and creationism, evolution is usually a main point of contention. The idea that all life on Earth evolved from a common ancestor is a major problem for ...

A large, publicly funded charter school system in Texas is teaching creationism to its students, Zack Kopplin recently reported in Slate. Creationist teachers don’t even need to be sneaky about it—the ...

The majority of high-school biology teachers don't take a solid stance on evolution with their students, mostly to avoid conflicts, and fewer than 30 percent of teachers take an adamant ...

Cognitive biases – essentially errors in thinking – plague humankind. Spending money or exerting effort on some activity in the past corrupts our decision making about that activity in the future ...

The forces opposed to teaching evolution in U.S. public schools just got a new reason to resent the bedrock scientific theory: A researcher has used the principles of evolutionary biology to show that ...

Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology at Yale, is an author and researcher who studies human belief in the supernatural. He is also the father of two small boys who have theories of their own. One ...