Why is it so important to teach evolution? After all, many questions in biology can be answered without mentioning evolution: How do birds fly? How can certain plants grow in the desert? Why do ...

Evolution is a fundamental building block of biology that underpins our understanding of the diversity of life today and how we, as humans, came to be who we are. Despite these truisms, almost half of ...

Cohen is the author of the new book Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's 50-Year Battle for a More Unjust America Tennessee was the center of the national debate when it prosecuted John Thomas ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indiana’s teaching of the theory of evolution does not violate the state or U.S. constitutions, a federal judge ruled Friday. Judge Sarah Evans Barker dismissed a lawsuit filed ...

The challenge with teaching evolution in 2025 is the same each semester, said Elizabeth Barnes, now approaching her fifth year on the biology faculty at Middle Tennessee State University. "I would say ...

A veteran state lawmaker wants to force public schools that teach evolution to also teach “intelligent design," which its sponsor admits is just another word for “creationism." Sen. David Farnsworth ...