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 ...

What should we teach our children about where we come from? Is evolution good science? Is it incompatible with faith? In his new book Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for ...

In a famous 1958 address commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s and Alfred Russel Wallace’s essays on evolution by natural selection, the distinguished ...

Famously, Charles Darwin's remains are kept at Westminster Abbey, along with the remains of other historically famous intellectuals, including Sir Isaac Newton, as well as members of the royal family, ...

Speakers at a school board meeting and on social media have voiced opposition, citing religious beliefs and a desire for more open discussion. The letter states that evolution is a unifying scientific ...

Creationists are right—in some cases. They are not right that the world is only 6,000 years old, nor that our species descended from two innocent ancestors in an Iraqi garden. They are not right when ...

Longtime UB professor John Henry Schlegel's talk promises a deeply personal and historically rich exploration of how American ...

Evolution or revolution? Nevada’s governor thinks a bit of both is best. Joe Lombardo recently appointed two high-performing public charter school leaders to key state education posts. In selecting ...