A quarter century ago, renowned humanists such as Albert Ellis, Michael Werner, Joe Gerstein (pictured here) and many others played an integral role in the founding of SMART Recovery—a secular, science-based, self-empowering mutual support program... Read More

A creationist just sued the US Department of the Interior and won. Andrew Snelling, is a geologist (awarded a PhD by the University of Sydney in 1982) and the director of research at Ken Ham’s... Read More

“Your island has been there for hundreds of years, and I believe your island will be there for hundreds more,” President Trump recently told the mayor of Virginia’s Tangier Island in response to reports that... Read More

In his 2009 book, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, biologist Richard Dawkins highlights a conceptual difference between the way anthropologists and biologists interpret the evidence of human evolution. Anthropologists, as Dawkins... Read More

For most secondary school students in science classrooms across the United States, dissection is inevitable. Some excitedly await the day, others nervously anticipate it. While several states allow students to sit out the process or... Read More

In its first few weeks in power, the Trump administration has already targeted NASA, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Parks Service, and the USDA. Now they’re after the Endangered Species Act. The Endangered Species... Read More

Last week researchers at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience announced that a woman suffering from an advanced “lock-in” stage of ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease), is now able to successfully... Read More