Recently the movement known as Intelligent Design has attracted the attention of journalists, educators, and legislators.The scientific community is puzzled and saddened by this trend--not only because it distorts modern biology, but also because it diverts people from the truly fascinating ideas emerging from the real science of evolution. Here, join sixteen of our preeminent thinkers whose clear, accessible, and passionate essays reveal the fact and power of Darwin's theory, and the beauty of the scientific quest to understand our world.

JOHN BROCKMAN  Introduction

JERRY A. COYNE  Intelligent Design: The Faith

                 That Dare Not Speak

                 Its Name

LEONARD SUSSKIND  The Good Fight

DANIEL C. DENNETT  The Hoax of Intelligent

                 Design and How It

                 Was Perpetrated

NICHOLAS HUMPHREY  Consciousness: The Achilles

                 Heel of Darwinism?

                 Thank God, Not Quite

TIM D. WHITE  Human Evolution:

                 The Evidence

NElL H. SHUBIN  The"Great'Transition

RICHARD DAWKINS  Intelligent Aliens

FRANK J. SULLOWAY  Why Darwin Rejected

                 Intelligent Design

SCOTT ATRAN  Unintelligent Design

   STEVEN PINKER  Evolution and Ethics

     LEE SMOLIN  Darwinism All the

                 Way Down

STUART A. KAUFFMAN  Intelligent Design,

                 Science or Not?

    SETH LLOYD  How Smart Is

                 the Universe?

   LISA RANDALL  Designing Words

 MARC D. HAUSER  Parental Guidance

                 Required

SCOTT D. SAMPSON  Evoliteracy

      A P P E N D I X  Excerpt from the Memorandum

                 Opinion of The United

                 States District Court for

                 the Middle District of

                 Pennsylvania, December

                 20, 2005