A conversation with Francis Collins. Editor’s note: Science in Focus is on vacation in July, so we’re going to the archives for science-related pieces from the pages of Books & Culture. This week ...

At the 200th anniversary of his birth, Charles Darwin's theory of human evolution continues to challenge and inspire all who contemplate the human condition, and especially the role of religion and ...

Roughgarden, a Stanford biology professor and author of Evolution's Rainbow, is impatient with the current tone of creation/evolution debates, but takes them seriously as an expression of a "pent-up ...

Three students came to my office. I was the chaplain at Mary Baldwin College (now University), and they were there to get money from my budget for a speaker they wanted to schedule. He was from an ...

We haven’t always been this way. It is certainly not necessary to think that the six days spoken of in that first chapter of the Bible are intended to be six days of 24 hours each. We may think of ...

As our ship sailing between two Galapagos Islands plunged forward through white-capped seas splitting the azure water, I reflected that this division served as a metaphor for the greatest division of ...

Evolution is neither purposeful nor intentional: it has no ideal, aim, or end-point. For evolutionary change, there are no ...

Q: Please tell us specifically how you handle the question of original sin. If God chose to create organisms, specifically mankind, through millions of years of evolution, what happens to the ...

Clark, of Blacksburg, serves as Campus Bible Fellowship staff at Virginia Tech. When my host offers me a choice of two kinds of pie, I often request a small piece of each. Sometimes both choices are ...

The 150th anniversary of the release of Charles Darwin's watershed book On The Origin of Species isn't an occasion for everyone to crack open the champagne to toast the scientific trailblazer. For ...