The Society for the Study of Evolution promotes the study of organic evolution.

The Evolution Education Research Center strives to advance the teaching and learning of biological evolution through research. It has branches at Harvard University in Massachusetts; Chapman University in Orange, Calif.; and McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The center’s researchers have studied the intersection of science education and religion in both Christian and Muslim societies. Science education professor Brian […]

The Darwin Correspondence Project, which focuses on the naturalist’s personal letters, has a section on Darwin and religion based on what his correspondence reveals about his personal religious beliefs.

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.

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.

A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism is a website where scientists can sign a document stating that they question the claims of Darwinism and call for further inquiry into it and other theories. The list includes scientists from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences; the Russian, Hungarian and Czech national academies; and universities such as Yale, Princeton, Stanford, the […]

For five months in 2009, London’s Natural History Museum hosted Darwin200 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species. The celebration included lectures, films, debates, performances and more. You can still learn about Darwin’s life and work through the museum’s website.

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.