At the Reason Rally he encouraged people not just to take issue with religious teachings, but to "ridicule" religious belief and show "contempt" for it. Now, suppose you're a conservative Christian in Tennessee, and a fellow conservative Christian is trying to convince you of the merits of that anti-evolution bill. >>Read More

The topics of religion and multilevel selection have been much in the news on the pages of ETVOL, and for good reason--a growing consensus that humans are a strongly group-selected species and that religion and morality are largely products of group selection. >>Read More

For anyone who thought that ETVOL would pass down the Word, based on the authority of Science, think again. Science is a boiling cauldron of disagreement. The only thing distinguishing it from other boiling cauldrons is that it is supposed to result in progress rather than endless gridlock. >>Read More

In the spirit of constructive disagreement, ETVOL is proud to feature a strongly worded blog by the eminent evolutionist Jerry Coyne, about a strongly worded article by ETVOL editor David Sloan Wilson. At issue are the contentious subjects of group selection and the nature of religion. But behind these issues is another set of issues. Are Wilson and Coyne functioning as scientists and responsible science journalists, or have they sunk to the level of all those other talking heads that have become so tiresome? >>Read More

Evolution in school and politics, fly speciation, evolutionary psychology, and group selection vs kin selection. >>Read More

Many people are led to believe that Charles Darwin had been an anti-religious atheist, devising evolutionary theory as a way of fighting all traditional faith(s). But nothing could be further from the historical facts. >>Read More

The editors of ETVOL are pleased to present EVOLUTION:101, a series of tutorials for viewers who are newly encountering the evolutionary perspective. In this tutorial, David Sloan Wilson explains how the elements of religion can be studied in the same way that evolutionists study biological traits, and how evolutionists who initially disagreed are reaching a consensus. >>Read More