COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Backers of an idea that life is so complex that it must have been designed by a higher power said on Monday that teachers in Ohio should be allowed to discuss the scientific ...

The debate over teaching students about the genesis of life is heating up again, with a Seattle organization emerging as one of its key figures. Started in 1996, the Center for Science and Culture, ...

School boards and legislatures across the country are continuing to debate how to teach students about the origins of life on Earth. Policymakers in at least 16 states are currently examining the ...

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 ...

But the clash over intelligent-design is evident far beyond this rural district of about 3,500 students 20 miles south of Harrisburg. In August, the Kansas Board of Education gave preliminary approval ...

(Due to an editing error this story said Gov. Jennifer Granholm opposes the teaching of evolution in science classes. Granholm is against the teaching of intelligent ...

In his new book, “The Greatest Show on Earth,” biologist Richard Dawkins brands those who doubt Charles Darwin’s ideas on evolution as “history deniers,” even stooping to compare them to “Holocaust ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Dover intelligent design decision may not be appealed, but its effects will be felt for some time to come, experts agreed. In a Dec. 20 ruling, Judge John Jones of the U.S.