Darwin News

The party's over, it's time to call it a day. They've burst your pretty balloon and taken the moon away.

Despite the stereotype many religious believers see science and faith as allies rather than foes.

A common misconception of many people was that Darwin was trying to refute the existence of God.

The debate over Intelligent Design has always generated more heat than light...but not just from "right-wing Creationists" . It seems that even the most learned and intellectually-sophisticated are not above smear-campaigns and empty rhetoric.

This replaced the previous sticky, and I have this comment about the Economist. Bad form and unprofessional to use the word "denialists". For WUWTA readers who wish to complain: letters@economist.com or use their online form here .

Apple's response to Nokia's claim that the iPhone infringes on technology patents held by Nokia is "two can play that game". Apple has countersued Nokia , claiming that the world's largest mobile handset maker is infringing on as many as 13 patents held by Apple.

In a recent Lancet article co-authored by the Obama Healthcare adviser Ezekiel Emmanuel and his co-authors outline their healthcare rationing methodology under fiscal constraint.

WORLD's 12th annual Daniel of the Year does not save lives abroad, as Britain's Caroline Cox and Sudan's Michael Yerko do.

THEATER "Stop the world, I want to get off" a ' a hoary phrase of pop weltschmerz that only now strikes me as a choice bit of narcissistic prurience, thanks to Peter Sinn Nachtrieb.

New in BioScience: To celebrate the 150th anniversary this month of the publication of On the Origin of Species, BioScience magazine is offering open access to two peer-reviewed articles about Charles Darwin and his historic insights into evolution: "Ten Myths about Charles Darwin," by Kevin Padian of the University of California, Berkeley, which ...

Orange County, California, U.S.A. Nov 26, 2009 Llewellyn: combating the Left's dreams of "one-world domination"! Hey, just who is this David Llewellyn , the lawyer Raghu Mathur hired to defend the district in the SOCCCD "prayer" lawsuit? Well, among other things, Mr.

To most of us who tend to fight the ever rising tide of holiday bargain chasers and department store debutants, the black in Black Friday is less representational of glorified booty than it is of impending doom.

Today, a century and a half after Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection," the overwhelming majority of scientists in the United States accept Darwinian evolution as the basis for understanding how life on Earth developed.

Even 150 years after it first appeared in print, Charles Darwin's "On The Origin of Species" still fuels clashes between scientists convinced of its truth and critics who reject its view of life without a creator.

Carol McManus has directed and acted in dozens of plays and only once before has she been stumped enough to seek advice from the experts.

California's boomtowns of yore, with their infinite orange groves, have undergone a mass exodus and only remnants of what looks and feels like nuclear fallout remains.