For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earths true past was dug up in abundance.

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth

We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate

America's got a Darwin problem - and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, fewer than 40% of Americans are willing to say that they 'believe in evolution.'

Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.