In response to Mark Hill’s May 6 letter “Intelligent Design deserves a respectful place in education,” it is not uncommon for people such as Mark Hill to believe that evolution can not explain the ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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, ...

The question of whether “intelligent design” amounts to legitimate science, pseudo-science, or religion masquerading as science is undergoing a potentially historic legal test, as a federal court here ...

Scientists who teach evolution sometimes feel as if they are trapped in an old horror film -- the kind where the monster is killed repeatedly, only to come to life in a nastier form each time. Since ...

SEATTLE - Since the advent of Darwinism in the mid-19th century, a variety of movements have jousted for the intellectual high ground in the epic evolution versus creationism debate. At one end of the ...

Mr. Behe is the author of Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, which since its publication in 1996, has emerged as seminal work in the intelligent-design community. His ...

Creationist Michael Behe attracted a lot of attention with his advocacy of the "intelligent design" argument. He makes the claim that certain biochemical processes are "irreducibly complex": they ...

According to the enthusiasts for ID, metabolic systems, such as the clotting cascade, are too complex ("irreducibly complex" in their preferred wording) to have arisen through evolution. 2 Problems ...

Good morning, class. As you know, the local school board has decided that we must include “Intelligent Design” in high school biology, so let’s start with the work of Dr. Michael Behe, ID’s leading ...

Through courtroom scene recreations and interviews, NOVA explores in detail one of the latest battles in the war over evolution, the historic 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case that ...