Accordingly, I judged it all the more necessary to find out what the truth was by torturing two female slaves who were called deaconesses.

As part of our year-end wrap-up of the biggest science stories of 2008, below we present the 10 most-viewed stories on SciAm.com over the past year.

Blogroll Archives Category: Politics Posted on: December 18, 2008 9:09 AM, by Ed Brayton One of the most powerful tools we have for exposing the creationist agenda for public school science classrooms is the ...

Here's another argument against intelligent design. An evolutionary geneticist from the Universite de Montreal, together with researchers from the French cities of Lyon and Montpellier, have published a ...

Want to start a brawl at an evolution conference? Just bring up the concept of group selection: the idea that one mixed bag of individuals can be "selected" as a group over other heterogeneous groups from the ...

Creationists continue to agitate against the teaching of evolution in public schools, adapting their tactics to match the roadblocks they encounter.