During an interview this week, President Bush endorsed the teaching of "intelligent design" -- the view that life is so complex it must be the product of a "higher intelligence." This view is promoted ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A school board member testified Wednesday that she voted to include "intelligent design" in a high-school biology curriculum despite not knowing much about the concept because she thought students ...

Last week, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III filed a 139-page opinion that bars the school board in Dover, Pa., from implementing its "intelligent design policy" in local schools. Jones's ruling ...

Conclusions About Intelligent Design: Intelligent Design is fundamentally religious. This conclusion is based primarily on ID leaders' and their supporters' views of it as stated in their own words, ...

This article is more than 7 years old. This claim irritates biologists. But not because we are all hyper-aggressive New Atheists (we’re not). It’s irritating because the fundamental purpose of science ...

The holy war against evolution has escalated again, with attempts by creationists to construe an explanatory statement accompanying a federal law on education as evidence that the US government ...

A: Science is a systematic form of inquiry, based on observation, prediction, reasoning, and testing, that explains how the natural universe works and seeks to continually advance our knowledge.