A compromise on creationism.

• Author: Clines, Francis X.
• Position: Education

Somewhere between evolution and creationism is the theory of "intelligent design." The Ohio Board of Education is debating whether to teach it in science classes.

Intelligent design supporters accept that organisms change over time, according to commonly held principles of evolution. But they dispute the idea that the complexity of the Earth's plants and animals could have just happened through the evolutionary force of natural selection. They say an intelligent designer-perhaps God, perhaps...