HARRISBURG, Pa. - Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial, the latest legal chapter in the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools is to unfold in federal court. The Dover Area ...

But the clash over intelligent-design is evident far beyond this rural district of about 3,500 students 20 miles south of Harrisburg. In August, the Kansas Board of Education gave preliminary approval ...

Intelligent design and evolution advocates, who squared off at UC Irvine last week, found that the chasm between the two theories may not be so great. UCI professors Walter Fitch, Gregory Weiss and ...

In his new book, “The Greatest Show on Earth,” biologist Richard Dawkins brands those who doubt Charles Darwin’s ideas on evolution as “history deniers,” even stooping to compare them to “Holocaust ...

A leading evolutionary biologist who defended Darwin’s theory in books and in the courtroom, he was forced to retire amid charges of sexual harassment. By Cornelia Dean The debate isn’t just about ...

NEW YORK — An influential Roman Catholic cardinal whose comments on evolution are closely followed condemned a court ruling Wednesday that barred a Pennsylvania school district from teaching ...