In the 1990s, a handful of scientists, mathematicians and lawyers launched an organized critique of evolutionary theory that became known as the Intelligent Design (ID) movement. The leaders in this movement included the attorney Phillip Johnson, the biochemist Michael Behe and the mathematician William Dembski. These experts claimed that there are structures underlying biological organisms, on both the anatomical and molecular level, that are so complex – “irreducibly complex,” as they put it – that the only plausible explanation is... Read more