"We deplore efforts to degrade human intelligence, to seek to explain the world in supernatural terms, and to look outside nature for salvation. We are committed to separation of church and state." - ...

Alarmed by a drumbeat of shrinking bird and butterfly populations, dying pollinators, and invasive pests and plants, gardeners are embracing the idea that their own landscapes can help. The National ...

Science and religion have never gotten along very well. But both strive to answer one fundamental question: What does it mean to be human? Are we here thanks to a random sequence of events—just an ...

Even the greatest of writers can boast a distinguished posthumous detractor: Shakespeare had Tolstoy and Shaw, and Jane Austen had Charlotte Brontë. The statements these detractors made are so ...

This is part 3 of this interview: click here for part 2. This is the fourth in a new series of posts on Science and Philosophy, featuring interviews with influential scientists and philosophers of ...

Today's politically correct version of naturalism hides behind an idealised vision of Darwin as someone who would have welcomed the molecular revolution in genetics but would never license eugenics.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Melbourne director Jason Raftopoulos shot this, his first feature, in 18 days with Vittorio De Sica's neo-realistic classic The Bicycle ...

The hundred years that have elapsed since the first publication of Origin of Species have by no means abated the interest which Darwin kindled. As evolutionary theories have multiplied, so ...