The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is an online community of pro-evolutionists who scorn the intelligent design camp’s idea of a designer by ascribing the designer the personality of a giant ball of pasta. Adherents are known as “Pastafarians.” Bobby Henderson runs the site.

CreationWiki is an online community-written encyclopedia about creation research.

The Creation Research Society is an Arizona-based organization of scientists and laypeople committed to what it calls “scientific special creation.” Board members are listed on the website.

The Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., is a 70,000-square-foot exhibition that promotes a literal view of the Bible and the creation story through lifelike displays that include depictions of human beings living alongside dinosaurs. The museum’s developers announced plans in December 2010 to build the Ark Encounter, a $150 million biblical theme park re-creating the story of Noah’s Ark as […]

See “An Evolving Debate about Evolution,” resources from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. The Pew package includes background on the evolution controversy and how that has played out in legislation and policies in various states. Pew also has a graphic showing how members of different faiths view evolutionary theory.

Read a March 9, 2007, essay in Commonweal about the legacy of Darwin’s controversial views on race and eugenics.

Read a June 26, 2007, New York Times essay on theology in the wake of discoveries about the brain and the evolution of morality.

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.