Evolution is nature's engine, driving and shaping genetic change and the diversity around us. Charles Darwin famously ...

Hello, I’m Ben Wattenberg… In recent decades Charles Darwin’s explanation of evolution through natural selection has been challenged by an alternative theory called Intelligent Design.

"Intelligent design theory" is built on the belief that evolution does not sufficiently explain the complexity that exists in life on Earth and that science should recognize the existence of an ...

Believers of intelligent design hold that life is so complex ... and intense debate now rages about many aspects of the theory. If evolution is worse than a fact, and scientists can't even make ...

Tennessee became the first state in the country a hundred years ago to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms ...

In the decades since its introduction, the neutral theory of evolution has become central to the study of evolution at the molecular level, in part because it provides a way to make strong ...

Scientific theory has had a rough time in America’s public schools. Almost 100 years ago, John Scopes was convicted of violating a Tennessee law prohibiting teaching ...

In the article "To Effectively Discuss Evolution, First Define 'Theory'" in the May 12 issue of The Scientist (R. Lewis, page 13), it was stated that the term "theory of evolution" should be replaced ...