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 ...

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 ...

I was watching an episode of the excellent space drama, Battlestar Galactica, a few weeks ago when an unexpected and shocking revelation about the theory of Intelligent Design hit me. In this show, ...

In 2005, a federal lawsuit set a national precedent after a judge ruled against the Dover Area School District's policy to teach intelligent design. The landmark case, Kitzmiller v. Dover, established ...