In a recent editorial ?I.D. necessary to show faults in evolution? (CT, Nov. 11), it is claimed that evolution is just a theory because it ?has not been proven,? and that it is therefore on a par with ...

President Bush said on Monday that schools should teach “intelligent design,” a theory asserting that an intelligent agent helped shape the origins and history of the earth and life, in addition to ...

Twenty years ago, when I was an undergraduate, many in academia considered me a walking contradiction: I was both an aspiring biologist and a practicing Catholic. As I was told quite bluntly by one of ...

The letter ?Teaching intelligent design defeats science? (CT, Oct. 7) is well articulated. However, it must be obvious to all that the very underpinnings of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ohio has become the latest front in the national battle over the teaching of origins in public schools. Advocates of Intelligent Design (ID) theory are urging the Ohio State Board of Education to ...

Two recent bills introduced at the state level could spell trouble for science education. One of them is in West Virginia, where the state Senate has approved a bill that would allow teachers to tell ...

The last thing McGill University professor Brian Alters expected upon opening a letter late in March was to see his latest $40,000 Canadian ($36,400 US) grant rejected for not providing enough ...

Lark Myers, a blond, 45-year-old gift shop owner, frames the question and answers it. "I definitely would prefer to believe that God created me than that I'm 50th cousin to a silverback ape," she said ...

Schools should teach intelligent design -- a theory asserting that an intelligent agent helped shape the origins and history of the earth and life -- in addition to evolution, the theory of life that ...