This study presents the results of a 19-item questionnaire distributed to all high school biology departments in the state of Ohio. The results indicated that Ohio high school biology teachers are far more likely to support the teaching of evolution, and far less likely to support the teaching of creationism than is the public at large. Most biology courses in the state include some evolutionar...

British biologists look worryingly at the developments on the issue of creationism and intelligent design in the US, where constant pressure from powerful conservative Christian groups seeks to continue to set a scientific alternative to evolution. There is wider support for evolutionary theory in the UK, but creationists are pushing their agenda there: lavish textbooks have been sent to school...

Case in point: The nonsense known as Creationism. I admit that I teach physics, and I do not have much interest in biology or medicine. Nonetheless, I know the difference between biology and bull. I am amazed at how many science students enter our university without the slightest knowledge of what Darwinian evolution is or what it means. It would seem that the American Taliban who wish to repla...

Darwinism seems to occupy a special place at the intersection of science, philosophy, and religion. One result is that evolution gets featured in controversies as different as those over theism versus materialism and nature versus nurture, to mention just two. In America, any discussion of evolution typically turns to the subject of creationism, the idea that an intelligent agent played a part ...