The key to the controversy about "intelligent design" ["Judge Rules Against 'Intelligent Design'; Dover, Pa., District Can't Teach Evolution Alternative," front page, Dec. 21] is curiosity -- the ...

Intelligent design -- the idea that life is too complex to have evolved through Darwinian evolution -- is stirring up controversy not only in high school classrooms but also at universities and ...

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 ...

The intelligent-design movement is a small but growing force on US university campuses. For some it bridges the gap between science and faith, for others it goes beyond the pale. Geoff Brumfiel ...

As part of that thought process, below are 10 principles that can help govern the future design of intelligent agents. 1. Useful. An intelligent agent should be of service to others.

Young-Earth creationists have criticized the Intelligent Design movement for encouraging a loose reading of the Bible. The design theorists respond that ID represents at least the “partial truth ...

While we officially celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" on November 24, celebrations of Darwin's legacy have actually been building in ...

Today, a trial begins over the board’s decision last year ordering that students be taught about intelligent design and flaws in Charles Darwin’s theories.

The theory of intelligent design is no more an attempt to bring God into the classroom than the Big Bang Theory was. Now, in the early parts of the 20th Century, physicists thought that the ...

Henry Gee finds his answer to the argument of Intelligent Design in the lamprey. Nature - How could sophisticated mechanisms such as the flagellar motor or the adaptive immune system have evolved ...