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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. -- A federal judge is contemplating whether the mandatory teaching of "intelligent design" improperly promotes religion in schools, after the historic evolution trial drew to a close.

President Bush invigorated proponents of teaching alternatives to evolution in public schools with remarks saying that schoolchildren should be taught about "intelligent design," a view of creation ...

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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 ...