Michael Shermer is founding publisher of Skeptic magazine and the author of "Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown" (Times Books, 2005). According to intelligent-design theory, life is ...

GARRET KEIZER is the author of "Help: The Original Human Dilemma." ADVOCATES OF teaching “intelligent design” aren’t giving up, no matter the recent setbacks in California and Pennsylvania. In Utah, ...

SEATTLE — Critics of intelligent design seem to think it’s a code word for “creationism.” It’s no wonder they think so, say some of its proponents. Many creationists are making the same mistake. The ...

A move to adopt guidelines encouraging Kansas schools to teach an alternative to the theory of evolution — intelligent design — gains momentum. The Kansas Board of Education has approved a draft of ...

This is in response to Tom Ashby’s Wednesday guest column “DNA evidence of an intelligent designer.” Ashby needs to go back and check his Kentucky Wesleyan and Discovery Institute brochures. He also ...

Why can't intelligent design include evolution? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by ...

In a broad and withering opinion, a federal judge ruled last month that intelligent design was nothing more than creationism in disguise and that it was therefore unconstitutional to teach it in a ...

On Oct. 21, 2005, Cornell University’s interim president, Hunter R. Rawlings III, devoted his State of the University Address to the intelligent design vs. evolution controversy. He told members of ...

Whether the topic is embryos or evolution, religious interests sometimes try to influence how science is taught and practiced. Frequently the perceived conflict between religion and science is ...

A federal judge on Tuesday banned the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to evolution by Pennsylvania's Dover Area School District, saying the practice violated the constitutional ban on ...

President Bush said this week that schools should teach both evolution science and intelligent design in schools. Two professors discuss teaching intelligent design alongside evolution in public ...