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 ...

Evolutionary biology has come under attack from creationists in the United States and in several European countries, most recently, Poland (“Polish scientists fight creationism” Nature 443, 890–891; ...

After writing yesterday about the now-famous/infamous debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham, I don’t want to make this blog all creationism all the time, but indulge me this one more time, if you will.

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 ...

A group of evangelical Christians has bought a Nao robot to explore the impact of humanoid robotics and artificial intelligence on humanity In 1925, creationists at the Scopes Trial in Tennessee ...

Creationists are demanding that they receive the opportunity for equal airtime on the science television show Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. The show tells the graphic story of the Big Bang as the ...

The level of scientific illiteracy in those arguments is self-evident and, as such, does not need any further discussion. What needs some comment is Giertych's claim about the scientific inspiration ...

Let me get this out of the way immediately: The Earth is more than 4 billion years old. Evolution is real and is the basis for all modern understanding of biology. Climate change is happening, and ...