Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna Christoph Schönborn has stepped into the confused controversies surrounding evolution, and added some much needed clarity. Just enough clarity, mind you. Not too much.

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Fifty years ago, no one knew why flowers bloomed; the phenomenon baffled researchers and bolstered creationists, who pointed to gaps in science as proof of the existence of a higher being. A half ...

Evolution supporters argue: Courts have affirmed evolution's place in education. Creationism is just a belief, not based on empirical data, and not testable. Creationism undermines critical thinking ...

My work is at a nexus between evolutionary psychology and the psychology of religion. I often wonder things like why religions evolved different food practices and why they have different religious ...

Robert Wright, author and senior fellow at the New America Foundation, believes that there is a hidden pattern in the great monotheistic religions and a “hidden code” in their scriptures. In his new ...

Evolution, in all honesty, is no less a theory than Newton’s Laws of motion. In reality, the only reason it has not been considered a law is that no one can show you in real time the speciation of say ...

Evolution and the Bible don’t contradict each other. To have Jesus, Mary “most likely” had sex. And Charles Darwin is worthy of sainthood. Those are statements the Rev. Michael Dowd, who spoke at ...