Modern culture increasingly embraces the notion that homosexuals are born, not made. It is even sometimes presented as fact that a "gay gene" compels some people to seek same-sex partners. In that vein, more and more public school educators are being pressured to present homosexuality as a normal lifestyle that should be affirmed in students who feel they might be gay.

The blindsnake, a small subsurface burrower, is not often seen, but when it is many mistake it for a worm.¹ Researchers have constructed an evolutionary history for these creatures, partly from biological data and partly from evolutionary assumptions.

Sir Isaac Newton's classic laws of physics apply well to large-scale phenomena like planetary orbits or apples falling from trees. But they seem to fall short in describing what happens at the tiniest levels--such as inside an atom.

Intelligent design (ID) is the concept that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection."¹ Unlike creation science, ID does not acknowledge a particular Designer, but rather holds that scientific observations show clear evidence of design, not random natural processes.<