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Moments after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's underdog victory four years ago, the streets in scruffy south Tehran were in full celebration for their native son.
A flu virus is a powerhouse of evolution, mutating at the maximum speed nature allows. A mild virus can morph into a killer and vice versa.
Scientists say they've found a "missing link" in the early evolution of seals and walruses — the skeleton of a web-footed, otter-like creature that was evolving away from a life on land. Those feet and other anatomical features show an early step on the way to developing flippers and other adaptations for a life in the sea, the scientists said.
State education leaders forged a compromise Friday on the teaching of evolution in Texas, adopting a new science curriculum that no longer requires educators to teach the weaknesses of all scientific theories.
Texas science teachers will no longer be required to teach weaknesses of scientific theory, including evolution, under new curriculum standards tentatively adopted by the State Board of Education on Thursday.
A Vatican-backed conference on evolution is under attack from people who weren't invited to participate: those espousing creationism and intelligent design.
The Vatican will include discussion of intelligent design in a conference marking the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species," officials said Tuesday.
The State Board of Education moved a step closer to dropping a 20-year-old science curriculum requirement that critics say is used to undermine the theory of evolution.
Experts and activists concerned about the way evolution is taught in Texas' public schools made their case before the state's board of education.
Don't hit that pause button just yet. Despite the tanking economy and an increasing number of video game-industry layoffs, many believe 2009 will be a year of evolution for games. The combination of innovative new titles, long-awaited franchise follow-ups and desire for escapism could spawn a gaming renaissance.
Scientists unearthed a skull of the most primitive four-legged creature in Earth's history, which should help them better understand the evolution of fish to advanced animals that walk on land.
Florida's public school science standards for the first time will use the word "evolution," although the biological concept already was being taught under code words such as "change over time." The new standards, part of a set of overall science changes adopted by the State Board of Education Tuesday on a 4-3 vote, require schools to spend more class time on evolution and teach it in more detail.
After the Sunday service in Westminster Chapel, where worshippers were exhorted to wage "the culture war" in the World War II spirit of Sir Winston Churchill, cabbie James McLean delivered his verdict on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Scientific advisers to the government emphasize in a report the importance of teaching evolution in public schools.
Science fiction writers have suggested a future Earth populated by a blend of all races into a common human form. In real life, the reverse seems to be happening. People are evolving more rapidly than in the distant past, with residents of various continents becoming increasingly different from one another, researchers say.
Golf club manufacturers have long placed ads in printed golf magazines. Movie studios tend to run television spots before a weekend rather than after. Targeting got even more precise as advertising moved to the Internet.
Surprising research based on two African fossils suggests our family tree is more like a wayward bush with stubby branches, challenging what had been common thinking on how early humans evolved.
Benedict XVI, in his first extended reflections on evolution published as pope, says that Darwin's theory cannot be finally proven and that science has unnecessarily narrowed humanity's view of creation.
A male masked tityra (Tityra semifasciata), one of the tropical species included in the study, at a nesting hole in a snag. It diverged from its sister species the black-tailed Tityra about 4 million years ago [Image courtesy of Jason Weir]
A Jewish organization is demanding an apology from a Georgia legislator for a memo that says the teaching of evolution should be banned because it is a myth propagated by an ancient Jewish sect.
Kansas has repealed public school science guidelines questioning the theory of evolution that brought the state international ridicule, but educators aren't sure how long it will be before the decision is overturned.
Flocks of the Christian faithful in the US will this Sunday hold special services celebrating Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The idea is to stand up to creationism, which claims the biblical account of creation is literally true, and which is increasingly being promoted under the guise of "intelligent design". Proponents of ID say the universe is so complex it must have been created by some unnamed designer.
An influential Roman Catholic cardinal whose comments on evolution are closely followed condemned a court decision Wednesday that barred a Pennsylvania school district from teaching "intelligent design" in biology class.
In the beginning were the bones. Fossils dating back hundreds of thousands- even millions- of years used by anthropologists to trace how the human species evolved.
A suburban school board that put stickers in high school science books saying evolution is "a theory, not a fact" abandoned its legal battle to keep them Tuesday after four years.
Fill Up Your Backyard Bird Feeder, Create a New SpeciesFor one species to diverge into two, you typically need physical separation so that two populations can breed independently and evolve in different ways.
Feeding birds 'changes evolution'Bird-feeders, hung in many a garden, can affect the way our feathered friends evolve, say scientists.
Creationism vs. Atheism: Its On!It appears that many of my Christian brothers and sisters cannot keep from making fools of themselves, and by association, the rest of us who profess to be followers of Jesus Christ. I think Ms.
N.I.H. Expands Stem Cell Lines Available for Federal ResearchThe National Institutes of Health said Wednesday that it had approved 13 new human embryonic stem cell lines for use by federally financed researchers, with another 96 lines under review. More Articles
'Old Europe' Advanced Earlier than other Known CivilizationsBefore the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills people who were ahead of their time in art, technology and long-distance trade. More Articles
Theism v. Atheism: Realism, Not Accommodation...if it is our goal to educate everyone on earth to the power and wonders of science (as it is the Skeptics Society and www.skeptic.com) and to employ science to solve social, political, economic, medical and environmental problems (as it is my personal goal), then we need as ma …
In 1953 a Stanley Miller did an experiment. He wanted to prove that building blocks of life can be started in a primitive atmosphere. So in his experiment he put together an atmosphere of hydrogen, methane, ammonia and water vapor. Then he passed an electric spark through it.
What Is Evolution? Reviewing The Terms, 150th birthday of Origin of Species by DarwinDarwin's Origin of Species celebrates its 150th birthday on Tuesday, November 24, 2009, and during those 150 years Darwin's ideas have come to dominate scientific disciplines from biology to archeology to sociology and everything in between.
American Freedom Alliance Files Lawsuit Against Leading Science Center Over Intelligent Design MovieLOS ANGELES, Nov. 24 /Christian Newswire/ -- American Freedom Alliance (AFA), a non-profit group, has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles against a popular science museum for cancelling an event exploring the topic of Intelligent Design.
Darwin's 'Origin of Species' fetches $172,000A rare first edition of "Origin of Species" that had languished for years on a toilet bookshelf sold Tuesday at auction for 103,250 pounds, or $172,000. On the same day, British authorities made an appeal for a stolen leather-bound notebook of Charles Darwin's.
The 10 mysteries of human behaviour that science can't explainThe New Scientist magazine compiled a list of the everyday aspects of life which continue to confound the world's greatest brains, including the reasons behind kissing, blushing and even picking your nose.
What do scientists think about religion?Today, a century and a half after Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection," the overwhelming majority of scientists in the United States accept Darwinian evolution as the basis for understanding how life on Earth developed.
World Net Daily Claims new creationist movie about the Galapagos proves Darwin wrongPer WND......upon returning to the very spot Charles Darwin arrived 174 years ago, the Christian scientists have examined the same unusual creatures Darwin saw – and they've documented their findings in a 90-minute Vision Forum Ministries film titled, "The Mysterious Islands: A …
Do Genetics Make Grandmas Play Favorites? The question is asked in every language, in every era: "So, dear, when will you give me grandchildren?" Darwin would approve.
New fossils reveal a world full of crocodilesNew fossils unearthed in what is now the Sahara desert reveal a once-swampy world divided up among a half-dozen species of unusual and perhaps intelligent crocodiles, researchers reported on Thursday.
Kirk Cameron's Crusade To Crush Evolution As Silly As It SoundsFormer TV teen idol Kirk Cameron has been on a crusade for years to discredit the theory of evolution.
Teaching of evolution to become mandatory in EnglandPrimary school children in England will have to learn about evolution and British history under a shake-up of the national curriculum Evolution is arguably the most important concept underlying the life sciences
How Humanlike Was "Ardi"?For such a petite creature, the 1.2-meter-tall "Ardi" (Ardipithecus ramidus) has made big waves in the paleoanthropology world.
Dembski Stoops Even Lower: Legal Threats to Silence a CriticFor those who have slightly better memory of recent events than an average gerbil, you'll surely remember that not too long ago, the Intelligent Design folks, with the help of Ben Stein, put together a whole movie about how evilutionists are all a bunch of evil fascists, out to s …
Seventh-Day Adventists split over evolution? - The Panda's Thumb...[T]he board of trustess of La Sierra University in Riverside, California, voted to endorse young-earth creationism:La Sierra's board of trustees last week unanimously voted to endorse Adventist beliefs that the world was created in six 24-hour days and said the teaching of e …
Wired Science News for Your Neurons Birth of New Species Witnessed by ScientistsWired Science News for Your Neurons Birth of New Species Witnessed by Scientists * By Brandon Keim Email Author * November 16, 2009 | * 3:00 pm | * Categories: Animals, Biology * darwinfinches2 finches2
Sarah Palin Does Not Believe in Science, as If Anybody Thought She MightOh my God! Look at this huge revelation from Ricky Hollywood's son's grandmother's brand new book…
Dwarf Goat More Reptile Than Mammal - Crocogoat?What had bones like a crocodile and grew like a crocodile, but was a goat? The answer, according to a new study, was the now-extinct Myotragus, also known as "mouse goat."
Another Nail In The Intelligent Design Coffin: Specization (i.e. Macroevolution) Observed In The WildOn one of the Galapagos islands whose finches shaped the theories of a young Charles Darwin, biologists have witnessed that elusive moment when a single species splits in two.
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