Are We Wired for Compassion?

Staff / Truthdig Jan 20, 2010 When the term human nature gets thrown around, it's sometimes used in a derisive fashion, as if to boil all the complex motivations, biological drives and psychological quirks that comprise our makeup down to some simplistic, base formula However, there are some who might cast the concept in a brighter light (continued). Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Peace Adapts

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Godless Darwin Movie Too Sciency for God-Loving America

Staff / Truthdig Sep 14, 2009 Let's get something straight, America. Charles Darwin was right. Only 39 percent of you believe that, but his theory of evolution is the basis of modern biological science. Deal with it. A new film about the man can't get distribution in the U.S. because -- this is embarrassing just to type -- 150 years after "On the Origin of Species," he's too controversial in these parts. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Elvis Evolution

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Charles Darwin on the Origin of Republicans

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Render Unto Darwin That Which Is Darwin’s

Chris Hedges / Truthdig May 12, 2008 The New Atheist writers from Richard Dawkins to E.O. Wilson to Sam Harris have become the high priests not of science but the cult of science. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Disneyland for Creationists

Staff / Truthdig Apr 14, 2007 Welcome to the Creation Museum in Kentucky, where vegetarian dinosaurs play with human children and 60 million years in their evolutionary age just disappears. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Digital Darwin

Staff / Truthdig Oct 19, 2006 Cambridge University is making Charles Darwin's complete works freely available online, including the notebook the legendary scientist wrote in during the voyage of the Beagle. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Vatican Begins to Thaw on Evolution

Staff / Truthdig Jan 19, 2006 The official Vatican newspaper lauds a judge in Pennsylvania for tossing intelligent design out of the classroom. Anyone hear the galloping of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? | story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )