Mankind's greatest inventions are all the result of individual flashes of inspiration – or are they? Jonnie Hughes argues that, instead, ideas are subject to evolutionary principles, and we humans are little more than their hosts.

Former Methodist pastor talks about her move to atheism

Dawkinsia, new genus

NYCA Joins in Suit to Get ‘In god We Trust’ Off Our Money

Pinker's Reply on Group Selection

Betrayal

This is the tooth of a hominid embedded in a rock containing significant parts of a skeleton of an early human ancestor. The skeleton is believed to be the remains of "Karabo", the type skeleton of Australopithecus sediba, discovered at the Malapa Site in the Cradle of Humankind in 2009. (Credit: University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)

Using a process called paleo-experimental evolution, Georgia Tech researchers have resurrected a 500-million-year-old gene from bacteria and inserted it into modern-day Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria. This bacterium has now been growing for more than 1,000 generations, giving the scientists a front row seat to observe evolution in action. Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology

A Blip That Speaks of Our Place in the Universe

A new unnamed natural satellite underscores Pluto's surprising complexity.

Science has an uneasy relationship with journalism, so what can be done by both sides to improve coverage

Letter to Trevor Phillips, Chair of Equality and Human Rights Commission

Existence of Atheists Offends Christians

An exhibit in the new Giants' Causeway Visitors' Centre acknowledges the creationist view of how the world-famous stones were formed.

The Magic of Reality - paperback release June 21

Announcing the linking of comments on the current and beta sites

Join The Ancestor's Trail as it recreates a symbolic journey backwards in evolutionary time through the Quantock Hills in Somerset.

Keynote speaker: Richard Dawkins

Does Religious Liberty Equal Freedom to Discriminate?

Military Proselytizing by the Gideons – and how we stopped it.