"Intelligent design theory" is built on the belief that evolution does not sufficiently explain the complexity that exists in life on Earth and that science should recognize the existence of an ...

Martin models the evolution of life on Earth in a few minutes using the visual aid of a walk through timeline. From 4.6 billion years ago when the Earth was red hot, the timeline illustrates the ...

Large-scale disruptions to life may ultimately increase ecological complexity over geologic timescales, though the risk of extinction always looms. Few Earth science concepts are as controversial ...

Life on Earth could have been started ... In a research study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nadja Drabon, an early Earth geologist and assistant professor in ...

Scientists have estimated the total amount of life on Earth that exists below ground ... in rock cracks at the bottom of deep mines. Science has barely begun to describe this microscopic menagerie.