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A School marching band T-shirt design includes the image of primate evolution to man, each stage holding a trumpet. Teacher Sherry Melby says she’s disappointed and that she doesn’t “think evolution should be associated with our school.”

PZ Myers joins the Secular Student Alliance Trip to the Creation Museum.

Noah’s Ark farm denies allegations, saying it promotes debate between science and religion over evolution

An uninspired re-hashing of NOMA (Non-Overlapping Magisteria), that attempts to use Intelligent Design to prove the existence of God.

The never-ending attempt to reconcile science and religion, and why it is doomed to fail.

The so-called New Atheists are attacking the mantra of science and faith being compatible. Others in the science community question the value of confrontation.

To deny the importance of teaching evolution is to fail to grasp a basic truth about children

Seldom do theatrical trailers get this degree of attention, but it may be justified in the case of “Creation”, a new movie about Charles Darwin, and the writing of “On the Origin of Species”. This tongue-in-cheek review satirizes the film’s portrayal of Origin as a source of marital conflict between Darwin and his wife Emma, who respectively represent science and religion. Science and religion clashing on the silver screen? How boring. But a man and a woman, now there’s the stuff of cinema.

A recent Pew survey shows that almost a third of non-scientist Americans believe that humans have not evolved.

Belief in evolutionary varies around the world, but there’s some evidence that Darwin-scepticism may have an Islamic flavour

A boundary where scientists face a choice: invoke a deity or continue the quest for knowledge

When scientists set out to trace the roots of human laughter, some chimps and gorillas were just tickled to help. Literally.

People are altruistic because they are militaristic, and cultured because they are common. At least that is the message of a couple of new studies

The Discovery Institute, which promotes intelligent design, has launched a new website attacking the pro-evolution arguments of geneticist and evangelical Christian Francis Collins.

Video of the newly discovered primate fossil said to be a “missing link” of early primates.

In a ruling against James Corbett, a Capistrano Valley, California high school teacher, a U.S. district court has found that the instructor’s statement on creationism constituted a government employee exhibiting hostility towards religion.

A beautiful child close to me, six and the apple of her father’s eye, believes that Thomas the Tank Engine really exists. She believes in Father Christmas, and when she grows up her ambition is to be a tooth fairy.