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 ...

“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, ...

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 ...

Ben Stein, best known as the economics teacher in “”Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,”” the host of his own game show and the mascot for Clear Eyes, has somehow managed to procure an even more humorous role – ...

BROOKFIELD - The national debate over intelligent design, an alternative to the theory of evolution in explaining how the universe formed, came to town Monday. The occasion was a candidates' forum in ...

BISMARCK — North Dakota lawmakers will hear testimony Wednesday, Feb. 12, regarding a bill to require schools to teach "intelligent design" — the idea that an intelligent entity designed the universe ...

Voters ousted from a Pennsylvania school board eight members who actively promoted teaching the anti-evolution "intelligent design" theory in schools. Madeleine Brand speaks with Ira Flatow, host of ...

Spurious creationist arguments against the legitimacy of evolutionary biology apparently reappear with a depressing regularity in America. A thinly disguised re-working of these discredited ideas is ...

Tom Ashby’s, Wednesday’s guest column “DNA evidence of an intelligent designer” cites challenges in biology as evidence for an intelligent designer. The theory of evolution is stronger than ever, as ...

I respect 12th-grader Erin Lodes and her philosophy of intelligent design. But her view on intelligent design, which the Kalamazoo Gazette chose to publish Sept. 13, contained some mistakes. Lodes ...

NARRATOR: Dover, Pennsylvania: like much of the United States, Dover has become a town divided. ALAN BONSELL (Dover School Board Member): I personally don't believe in Darwin's theory of evolution.

A University of Massachusetts geology professor may be creating a political battleground with his radical, anti-creationism campaign launched last week at the Geological Society of America?s annual ...