The Seattle Times occasionally hosts guest columnists on faith and values. Today we bring you Barbara Dority, a humanist. Feb. 12, 2009, will be the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth.

More than 150 years ago, Charles Darwin proposed the theory of universal common ancestry (UCA), linking all forms of life by a shared genetic heritage from single-celled microorganisms to humans.

A Sept. 4 letter to the editor denigrating evolution contains numerous errors and misunderstandings which perpetuate the myth that science and religion are incompatible. Darwin’s theory of evolution ...

On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species and transformed our understanding of life on Earth by ...

More than 150 years ago, Darwin proposed the theory of universal common ancestry, linking all forms of life by a shared genetic heritage from single-celled microorganisms to humans. Until now, the ...

Charles Darwin is widely thought to have developed his natural selection theory of evolution after noting differences among finches in the Galapagos Islands. But it was variation in another species ...

Charles Darwin sparked more than one controversy over the natural progression of life. One such case involved the evolution of coral atolls, the ring-shaped coral reefs that surround submerged ...

The unfortunate COVID pandemic has provided us with a vivid view of evolution in action. The viral transformation over time associated with the spread of the disease throughout the globe vividly ...

This is the 11th installment of an abridged version of my book Reef Madness: Alexander Agassiz, Charles Darwin, and the Meaning of Coral. (Earlier installments are listed at bottom.) Here Darwin ...

NCERT recently decided to erase Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution (also known as Darwinism) for the senior secondary classes. Terming it a rationalisation exercise, the premier body has failed to ...