At long last, fossil hunters have found the coveted “missing link.” Again.
Even before naturalist Charles Darwin — born two centuries ago this year — published “On the Origin of the Species,” the phrase “missing link” had entered the lexicon. It…

Charles Darwin wasn’t the first to describe what he later called “the struggle to survive,” nor was he the first to say that natural selection best explains why animals are so well adapted to their surroundings.

But Darwin was the first…

Evolution is, by definition, a series of small changes that occur over long periods of time. At least, that’s how scientists since the time of Charles Darwin always have regarded it.
But a new study suggests that the word “long” may not belong in…

We Americans love freedom. And education. When it comes to education, we especially love “academic freedom.” Who could be opposed to that?

That helps explain why “academic freedom” has become the latest fig leaf for anti-evolutionists. The latest example is a…

Sixty-eight million years ago, Tyrannosaurus rex ruled the roost. It was the largest and most fearsome predator ever to thunder across the ancient Earth. Even today in the safety of a museum, coming face-to-kneecap with T. rex inspires awe —…