Charles Darwin’s metaphorical thinking is sometimes subject to a tension between nature as destroyer and nature as nurturer. Hard questions from one or more friends, and from reviewers of the book, led him to consider replacing talk of “natural selection” with the term “natural preservation,” so as to avoid errant associations with choice and, by extension, teleology. But Darwin seems to have sensed that such acquiescence would have been fatal to his idea of major morphological change. After all, his book was about the origin of new species, not their preservation having once arrived. Darwin needed the term “natural selection” to modify the reader’s conception of nature’s role — not an exterminator or even a mere embalmer of the status quo but a nurturing facilitator. —Neil Thomas, False Messiah: Darwinism as the God That Failed
I am a frequent visitor... I am a former agnostic, and Creation-Evolution Headlines was one of the first pieces of open evolution questioning read (The Baloney Detector). Great stuff. — a historian in Australia
In the years since [the rise of the New Atheism], it has become increasingly obvious that science functions as much as an ideology as it does as a method of inquiry. The “scientific consensus” is now frequently invoked to settle not just scientific questions, but public-policy ones as well. Call this scientism. One of its most striking features is just how vacuous it is. Contemporary scientism doesn’t necessarily entail anything beyond uncritical deference to experts. —David Moulton, Compact 6/18/2024
June 4, 2017One evolutionary psychologist demonstrates human exceptionalism while denying it.
November 12, 2010Two men who recently died are now being honored for their willingness to have stood up to the majority and advanced views that were unpopular at the time.
April 26, 2019Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 Malthusian prediction of mass starvation due to increasing population was not only wrong; it was dreadfully harmful.
FUNNY PAGES
See the DARWIN HYMNBOOK!
Sing along with our PARODY SONGS!
Laugh at our SCIENCE JOKES!
Below are a few of the original cartoons by Brett Miller that add humor to our articles. Some were commissioned especially for Creation-Evolution Headlines. Note: these are copyrighted artworks by Brett Miller, used here by permission.

Lift up your eyes on high and see who has created these stars, the One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name; Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power, not one of them is missing. — Isaiah 40:26