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.

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.

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.