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 ...

“Does the theory of ‘intelligent design’ deserve more support within academe? Should scientists be speaking out against this movement?” The answers to these questions in your online Colloquy are, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alex Chadwick talks with Slate's Will Saletan about the current public debate over the Earth's beginnings. Saletan believes that the logical underpinnings of the "intelligent design" theory ...

Four months ago, when evolution and “intelligent design” (ID) squared off in Kansas, I defended ID as a more evolved version of creationism. ID posits that complex systems in nature must have been ...

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Clyde F. "Kip" Herreid is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, College of rts and Sciences. What is the theory of intelligent design? How does it differ from ...

Something strange is happening in the United States. When a doctor tells the average American that he has cancer, the patient is inclined to agree. When your mechanic says you need a new serpentine ...

The essay by Harold Morowitz, Robert Hazen, and James Trefil (“Intelligent Design Has No Place in the Science Curriculum,” The Chronicle Review, September 2) is a good illustration of how easy and ...

Although the national controversy over the theory of intelligent design continues, the consensus among Virginia Tech faculty and the Montgomery County School Board is it will not be an issue in this ...

A University of Massachusetts geology professor may be creating a political battleground with his radical, anti-creationism campaign launched last week at the Geological Society of America?s annual ...