Adam Laats is a historian teaching at Binghamton University, specializing in the intersection of culture wars and education. He has a special gift for critically examining the positions of religious ...

With the recent hullaballoo over my foray, once again, into showing how ridiculous young-Earth creationism is, and the sheer flood of comments from people who have completely and utterly missed the ...

More than 200 people crammed themselves into a classroom to hear a discussion on one of the oldest but still hottest philosophical debates -- creationism versus evolution. Members of the audience sat ...

Creationism — the belief that all life on Earth came from a divine hand, as described in the Book of Genesis — is a single concept with many subsects. Creationists divide roughly into two camps: "old ...