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 ...

GARRET KEIZER is the author of "Help: The Original Human Dilemma." ADVOCATES OF teaching “intelligent design” aren’t giving up, no matter the recent setbacks in California and Pennsylvania. In Utah, ...

If God is omnipotent (all-powerful), why did he take six days to create everything? Why not speak everything into existence all at once? A: The short answer: Because that’s how he decided to do it!

The subject of Intelligent Design has been in the news lately, and it’s amazing how much resistance there is to it. There is hope, however, for quite a number of scientists are now admitting ...

Some months ago Cardinal Christoph Schönborn got in trouble for saying, in effect, that the Church had not signed off on the entire Darwinian project. It turns out that even though the Church believes ...

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 ...

Michael Shermer is founding publisher of Skeptic magazine and the author of "Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown" (Times Books, 2005). According to intelligent-design theory, life is ...

Columns share an author’s personal perspective. Dear Pastor, If God is omnipotent (all-powerful), why did he take six days to create everything? Why not speak everything into existence all at ...