Ten years ago, when I first started writing on science and faith, Intelligent Design was a hot topic. It was in the news and high on the agenda for many in my local church. Today it has slid into the ...

Brown University biologist Kenneth Miller is a leading opponent of intelligent design. In Only a Theory, he explains why. How would you quickly sum up the central flaw in intelligent design? No ...

At the Pontifical University in Maynooth, Ireland, one of the schools from which Robert Boylan graduated (Wikimedia Commons public domain image) First, though: The discussants for the 18 June 2023 ...

Intelligent design is the theory that the universe is too complex a place to be accounted for by an appeal to natural selection and the random processes of evolution. Some kind of overarching ...

・Michael Behe, a biochemistry professor, argues that the complexity of life cannot be fully explained by Darwinian evolution, proposing that such complexity indicates intelligent design instead. ・Behe ...

Evolutionary biologist Richard Sternberg made a fateful decision a year ago. As editor of the hitherto obscure Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Sternberg decided to publish a paper ...

A federal judge on Tuesday banned the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to evolution by Pennsylvania's Dover Area School District, saying the practice violated the constitutional ban on ...

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 ...

The holy war against evolution has escalated again, with attempts by creationists to construe an explanatory statement accompanying a federal law on education as evidence that the US government ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...