Dr. Ralph D. Winter argued that all violent forms of life – including all disease pathogens – are the works of an “intelligent evil power” that seeks to destroy God’s creation. As a result, God has for far too long been taking the blame for Satan’s destructive works. And even Christians are confused over who is responsible for all the evil in the world, including disease and suffering. Some even claim that God wants diseases in the world. ... [More]

A federal judge ruled that a public high school history teacher violated the First Amendment when he called creationism "superstitious nonsense" during a classroom lecture. U.S. District Judge James Selna ruled Friday in a lawsuit student Chad Farnan filed in 2007, alleging that teacher James Corbett violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment by making repeated comments in class that were hostile to Christian beliefs. ... [More]

Neurobiologist Steven Rose reviews Kathleen Taylor's new book "Cruelty: Human Evil and the Human Brain" and explores evolutionary explanations for man's capacity for cruelty. by Steven Rose Excerpted from The Guardian From Gaza to the streets of Northern Ireland, from... [More]

The mischief-making of social conservatives on the State Board of Education has drawn the bipartisan attention of members of the Texas Legislature. What has drawn their attention is the demonstrated interest of those conservatives in ideology over education. ... [More]

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have compiled the first-ever review of the neurobiology of wisdom – once the sole province of religion and philosophy. ... [More]

The Texas Board of Education approved a science curriculum that opens the door for teachers and textbooks to raise doubts about evolution. Critics of evolution said they were thrilled with Friday's move. ... [More]

Canada's science minister, the man at the centre of the controversy over federal funding cuts to researchers, won't say if he believes in evolution. “I'm not going to answer that question. I am a Christian, and I don't think anybody asking a question about my religion is appropriate,” Gary Goodyear, the federal Minister of State for Science and Technology, said in an interview with The Globe and Mail. ... [More]

Richard Dawkins tells a crowd of 2,000 in Omaha, Nebraska that intelligent design promoters are "theocrats" who are losing their battle to try to get religion into schools, so they "are behaving like cornered ... animals." ... [More]

Dentist Don McLeroy is chairman of the Texas State Board of Education and he is leading the fight against Texas' science curriculum. A "young earth" creationist, McLeroy believes that the earth is between 6000 and 10,000 years old. He wants Texas school children to be taught that natural selection cannot explain the complexity of cells. ... [More]

Once we had evolved the necessary brain architecture, we could "do" religion, brain scans indicate. The research shows that, to interpret a god's intentions and feelings, we rely mainly on the same recently evolved brain regions that divine the feelings and intentions of other people. ... [More]

A 2-year-old, it turns out, knows the difference between right and wrong. According to psychologist Judi Smetana, the sense of morality begins to develop early in humans. ... [More]

His vast brow hangs over us all. His foamy white beard cascades down in the familiar Michelangelo Old Testament style. He speaks to mankind of ancient origins and end times. In this year of his double anniversary, are we in danger of turning Charles Darwin if not into God, at least into the founder of a secular religion? ... [More]

Yale psychology professor Paul Bloom believes that all religions throughout the world have a single, common basis in a single reality, a universal constant in every person's experience: the human brain. ... [More]

The Vatican sought Tuesday to show that it isn't opposed to science and evolutionary theory, hosting a conference on Charles Darwin and trying to debunk the idea that it embraces creationism or intelligent design. ... [More]

Almost half of adults in the east of England believe the theory of evolution makes God obsolete, and more than 80% disagree with creationism and intelligent design, which propose that humans were created by God in the past 10,000 years, and that life owes its complexity to divine intervention. ... [More]

To watch the 5 o'clock news every night, you'd think man was born to be destructive, violent and antagonistic. But that's just not the case, argue numerous prominent researchers who will gather at Washington University in St. Louis March 12-14 to discuss the nature of human sociality. ... [More]

Washington University biologist discusses the "sacred nature" of sustainability, as seen from the perspectives of 'ecomorality' and religious naturalism ... [More]

At Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA, denying evolution is a top priority for science professors, who are "dedicated Christians who affirm students in the faith ... and encourage them to evaluate all things from a Christ-centered perspective." ... [More]

Susan Jacoby, the Author of The Age of American Unreason, in an article published yesterday on the Washinton Post and Newsweek website, explains why Darwin is recognized as a "scientific giant." ... [More]

Two hundred years ago today, on February 12, 1809, Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England at his family home. ... [More]