U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones III presided over the landmark case of Kitzmiller v. Dover. It was one of the most significant battles in the cultural war over teaching evolution in U.S.

Supporters of “intelligent design” ventured deep into the realm of biological and chemical research last week in an attempt to show the concept’s scientific legitimacy—as well as its legal standing in ...

In a thought-provoking paper from the March issue of The Quarterly Review of Biology, Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin) clearly discusses the problems with two standard criticisms of intelligent ...

Last week, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III filed a 139-page opinion that bars the school board in Dover, Pa., from implementing its "intelligent design policy" in local schools. Jones's ruling ...

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 ...

In a decision that could have broad implications for public schools across the country, a federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled that “intelligent design” is not legitimate science, but rather an ...

Exactly a century ago, national attention was focused on a Tennessee courthouse. It was truly — with apologies to O.J. Simpson some 70 years later — the “trial of the century.” In July 1925, it seemed ...

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 ...

A federal judge in Dover, Pa. ruled Tuesday against teaching "intelligent design" in public schools. He said intelligent design, which credits an unseen creator with human development, has no place in ...

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 ...

Although evolutionists and creationists strongly disagree about the role that intelligent design plays in the origins of bodies and brains, they curiously agree about the role that intelligent design ...

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 ...