Legislators in Indiana appear to have fallen short of their goal of injecting creationism into U.S. public schools.

Time and again, organisms have shown themselves to be adept at evolving around seemingly insurmountable obstacles to their spread and survival.

The 'beachcomber express' may have carried our African ancestors to the Indian Ocean and beyond.

Large mammals such as the black rhino (pictured) take longer to evolve than do small mammals.

Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman

Activists Fight Green Projects, Seeing U.N. Plot

Volcanoes Indicted for Europe's Long, Big Chill

MLK Jr. on Prayer in Schools

Closely Watched Study Fails to Find Arsenic in Microbial DNA

Bath Christian group's 'God can heal' adverts banned

Something from nothing? A conversation with Lawrence Krauss and Richard Dawkins

Why should he sit still and see a valued and precious discipline being insulted, even threatened with not being taught?

“It’s Part of their Culture” - Reading Nick Cohen in the light of the Jaipur affair

This article was published in New Statesman, 23rd Jan 2012, under a different title. [Also in Polish]

Redundancy Reduction and Pattern Recognition: Richard Dawkins's Answer to the Annual Edge Question

Free schools that teach 'intelligent design'
as science will lose funding

“It’s Part of their Culture” - Reading Nick Cohen in the light of the Jaipur affair

I suspect that there is life elsewhere in the universe, but it is probably extremely rare and isolated on far-flung islands of life, like a celestial Polynesia.

The new 'evidence' amounts to yet another 'Argument from Personal Incredulity': the Italian scientists cannot understand how it could have been faked.