In 1925, a teacher deliberately broke a law stating that evolution could not be taught in Tennessee classrooms. His trial rocked the nation. The following is an excerpt from Keeping the Faith: God, ...

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 ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A school district that required science teachers to read a statement about alternatives to the theory of evolution decided Friday that teachers can choose not to read it, but ...

Two decades of political and legal maneuvering on evolution has spilled over into public schools, and biology teachers are struggling to respond. Loyal to the accounts they’ve learned in church, ...

Think of the warning label on media containing explicit material. Now imagine similar ones emblazoned on biology texts in public schools. That’s exactly what scientists and educators across the ...

[T]he trial of John T. Scopes, high school teacher, at Dayton, Tennessee, for the alleged violation of the now famous anti-evolution act on the statute books of that State … brought a number of ...