My reply to Jon Kaus: First, I do not claim that natural selection doesn’t use chance. As such, his request that I explain how evolution doesn’t use chance is misdirected. My view is that it’s a ...

Senate Bill 2355 proposes requiring schools to teach intelligent design — the belief that a God, rather than evolution, shaped life on Earth. The North Dakota Senate is debating a bill requiring ...

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 ...

Opponents of Senate Bill 2355 say teaching intelligent design in science classes invites litigation, while supporters say the idea deserves the same attention as the theory of evolution. North Dakota ...

Imagine if the genetic deck had been shuffled slightly differently as some of the earliest life forms began their evolutionary paths. Might a creature just as smart as us -- or even smarter -- have ...