This month marks the 10th anniversary of a trial LiveScience called “one of the biggest courtroom clashes between faith and evolution since the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial.”

In 2005, a federal judge ruled the Dover Area School District in Pennsylvania could not teach intelligent design (ID) in a biology class. ID asserts that the complexity of the universe and living things points to an intelligent designer, not to the random chance mutations posited by Darwinian evolution.

Darwinists hailed their legal victory at Dover as a death knell for ID. But, a decade after the trial, ID is alive and well, said Casey Luskin, a program officer with the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture.

The Discovery Institute did not support the Dover school board’s attempt to require ID in classrooms, fearing such debates take ID out of the scientific realm and push it into the political arena. “We want to see ID grow as a science,” Luskin said. “Politicizing it harms academic freedom.”

Read the article “Intelligent Design: A Decade After the Dover Trial” on worldmag.com.