Read a June 17, 2008, entry on The New York Times’ “Wild Side” blog by evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson titled “Darwinmania.”

A Religion News Service piece analyzing the portrayal of torture in the 2012 movie “Zero Dark Thirty.”

Read an Aug. 23, 2008, New York Times story about a Florida high school teacher approaching the subject of evolution in his science class.

Scientific American’s January 2009 issue was dedicated to a discussion of the implications of Darwin and evolution.Read an article it included by the National Center for Science Education’s Glenn Branch and Eugenie Scott about teaching evolution in public schools.

As this New York Times story reports, a study published in the January 2011 edition of Science magazine found that just 28 percent of biology teachers consistently teach the evidence for evolution; 13 percent explicitly advocate creationism.

An May 31, 2013, opinion piece published in the New York Times that asks if force-feeding prisoners on hunger strike constitutes torture. The question came about after detainees in the U.S.’s Guantánamo Bay prison facility in Cuba refused to be fed in protest of new rules.

Read a Feb. 11, 2011, column posted by the website Science + Religion Today about  an increase in congregations embracing the observance of Evolution Weekend since it first started in 2006.

Read “Death Anxiety Shapes Views on Evolution,” posted March 30, 2011, by the online magazine Miller-McCune.com.

Read an Aug. 9, 2011, NPR story about the efforts of Evangelicals to reconcile religious doctrine with science.