Paul Braterman is affiliated with the British Centre for Science Education, and is science advisor to the Scottish Secular Society. My recent Conversation article, How to slam dunk creationists when ...

Creationism is back in the news, following the Ken Ham/Bill Nye debate and the recently released HBO documentary, “Questioning Darwin.” Many writers, including myself, have argued that creationism is ...

Michael Brendan Dougherty doesn’t agree with Christians who believe Genesis is a science textbook, but he has a lot of sympathy for them. Excerpt: So I do not think that Ken Ham–style creationists ...

For some Christian creationists, the scientific theory of evolution is an existential threat to their faith—one they feel they must publicly oppose. “There is a war in society,” writes Ken Ham, the ...

The Huffington Post surprised and upset many readers recently by publishing a blog post by Discovery Institute senior fellow David Klinghoffer linking Hitler to Darwin. While most liberals would ...

Creationists are accusing astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s reboot of “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” of being scientifically unbalanced because it doesn’t represent their beliefs. Right Wing Watch ...

(RNS) Bill Nye may be “The Science Guy,” but Ken Ham is the “Answers in Genesis” man, and a debate between the two over the origins of life has nonbelievers and Christians wringing their hands. (RNS) ...

When Pope Francis mentioned his belief in the theory of evolution the other day, the story got more play in the media than it probably deserved. Francis is not the first pope to express such ...

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Bill Nye, The Science Guy, will debate Ken Ham, The Creationist Guy, tonight at the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky. They will debate a question from the 1920's: "Is creation a viable model of ...

Young-earth creationists don’t ignore science. Instead, they reinterpret it to fit their belief system. One paleontologist was curious to find out what they teach about human ancestry, and how they ...

Commentator and rock demigod James Poulos cut to the quick in the debate on "creation" earlier this week between the pseudoscience peddler Ken Ham and the pop-science celebra-geek Bill Nye. Too true.