Adam Laats is a historian teaching at Binghamton University, specializing in the intersection of culture wars and education. He has a special gift for critically examining the positions of religious ...

Some Jews, including many of the ultra-Orthodox, reject evolutionary theory. They see the Bible as embodying eternal truths. Thus, some of the ultra-Orthodox are unwilling to reinterpret it in order ...

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 ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KSWO) - A bill has been filed in the senate that would enforce a dual curriculum of creationism and the theory of evolution. Sen. David Bullard, R-Durant authored Senate Bill 1868, ...

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ON 10 July 1925, a drama was played out in a small courtroom in a Tennessee town that touched off a far-reaching ideological battle. John Scopes, a schoolteacher, was found guilty of teaching ...

What if everything we know about the world is just a simulation? This thought-provoking question has been at the center of the Simulation Theory, a concept that has become increasingly popular in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 2001 discovery of the seven million-year-old Sahelanthropus, the first known upright ape-like creatures, was yet more proof of ...

UPDATE: The bill failed to advance from the Senate Education Committee on a 3-3 vote. Last week, the Arkansas state House of Representatives passed a bill that would amend state education law to allow ...