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Years after Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species," he responded to a reader who wanted the biologist to explain whether his theory destroys the argument for an all-creating God. Darwin ...

The idea of natural selection has caused religious debates since even before Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859. Now, a letter penned by the father of evolution himself on his ...

In Southern Patagonia, Charles Darwin is big medicine. I’m writing this from Puerto Natales, from the third floor of the Charles Darwin Hotel--every tin-roof town in southern Chile seems to have one.

A major museum retrospective on Darwin in New York City and several recent court decisions have ensured that evolution and creation are still under hot debate in the United States. Faith & Reason ...

The year 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. 2010 marks 400 years since Galileo published The Starry Messenger, his first public comment on Copernicanism and the first popular ...

A red rock crab on the Galapagos Islands. Known for their large number of endemic species, the Galapagos Islands were studied by Charles Darwin and contributed to his formulation of the theory of ...

When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, he essentially declared an end to our lack of curiosity about human beginnings and the natural evolution of the material world. He was ...

Excerpted from “Darwin's Dice: The Idea of Chance in the Thought of Charles Darwin” Charles Darwin’s “big idea” is generally thought to be his discovery of the mechanism of natural selection in ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. Children’s ...