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 ...

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The US state of Kansas has ruled that science classes in public schools should include the teaching of intelligent design and the doubts it casts on Darwinian evolution. The move has dismayed the ...

T he public perception of intelligent design is that it is a scientifically specious, religiously motivated idea that seeks to explain away the notion of Darwinian evolution through magical thinking.

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 ...

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 move to adopt guidelines encouraging Kansas schools to teach an alternative to the theory of evolution — intelligent design — gains momentum. The Kansas Board of Education has approved a draft of ...