Religious colleges and universities are supposed to be free to adopt curricula consistent with their fundamental beliefs. But a new proposal could gut current protections in the name of “science,” raising a serious threat to open debate over scientific issues and their implications.

Alfred Russel Wallace’s birthday is January 8. Join us for an online birthday party as we celebrate the life and legacy of Wallace with historian Michael Flannery. One of the greatest naturalists of the 19th century, Alfred Russel Wallace co-discovered evolution by natural selection with Charles Darwin. But unlike Darwin, Wallace became convinced that life and the universe displayed clear evidence of purposeful design.

G. K. Chesterton was a friend of George Bernard Shaw but also an ideological opponent, who often debated with him on public stages, defending with uncommon eloquence a traditional “mere-Christian,” natural-law view of the human person and human history, as opposed to Shaw’s aggressive, multifaceted modernism, his feminism, Nietzscheanism, socialism, vegetarianism, “creative evolutionism,” and eugenics.

Enjoy an Evolution News tradition, counting down our Top 10 stories of the year. 2020's #1 story was about the science journal BioEssays, who called for government censorship of Evolution News.

Bernardo Kastrup has been engaged in a debate with “science first” philosopher Peter Vickers. Kastrup believes that Vickers’ explanation of the mind is not complex enough. The question Kastrup is raising is, why should science be committed to either materialism or physicalism?