I was watching an episode of the excellent space drama, Battlestar Galactica, a few weeks ago when an unexpected and shocking revelation about the theory of Intelligent Design hit me. In this show, ...

Intelligent design holds that certain features of life forms are so complex that they can best be explained by an origin from an intelligent higher power, not an undirected process like natural ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With Wednesday night’s Great Debate sparking questions about including Intelligent Design in public school curriculums, Boston University theology professors say intelligent design should only be ...

ROME -- A Vatican-backed conference on evolution is under attack from people who weren't invited to participate: those espousing creationism and intelligent design. The Seattle-based Discovery ...

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 ...

A federal judge in Pennsylvania will hear arguments Monday in a lawsuit that both sides say could set the fundamental ground rules for how American students are taught the origins of life for years to ...

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a cyclopean invertebrate with a single eye atop the head. By Carl Zimmer A leading ...