While Intelligent Design (ID) is a term which is becoming more familiar in our culture it is safe to say most people still misunderstand it. Since critics often misrepresent ID, and paint ID advocates ...

Commentator Joe Loconte says that Thursday's judicial ruling against the teaching of intelligent design is wrong. He says posing the question of a "supreme intelligence" should not be ruled out of ...

Schools should teach intelligent design -- a theory asserting that an intelligent agent helped shape the origins and history of the earth and life -- in addition to evolution, the theory of life that ...

Supporters of “intelligent design” ventured deep into the realm of biological and chemical research last week in an attempt to show the concept’s scientific legitimacy—as well as its legal standing in ...

More than 120 faculty members at Iowa State University have signed a statement denouncing “intelligent design” and urging professors at the institution not to portray the theory as science. The ...

Re “Not Intelligent, and Surely Not Science,” Commentary, March 30: The theory of evolution seems most probable when one asks the obvious question about the intelligent-design theory. As I understand ...

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 ...

Twenty years ago, when I was an undergraduate, many in academia considered me a walking contradiction: I was both an aspiring biologist and a practicing Catholic. As I was told quite bluntly by one of ...

In recent years Charles Darwin’s explanation of evolution through natural selection has been challenged by an alternative theory called Intelligent Design. A growing number of science teachers and ...

Voters ousted from a Pennsylvania school board eight members who actively promoted teaching the anti-evolution "intelligent design" theory in schools. Madeleine Brand speaks with Ira Flatow, host of ...

The newest campaign by anti-Darwinists to undercut the theory of evolution borrows, in fact, from objections raised long ago. That is, there are some features of living things so complex that it seems ...