October 14, 2005

Intelligent Design and Evolution in the Classroom

To the Editor:

The essay by Harold Morowitz, Robert Hazen, and James Trefil ("Intelligent Design Has No Place in the Science Curriculum," The Chronicle Review, September 2) is a good illustration of how easy and effective it is to teach by presenting alternate theories. It is not a waste of time to describe, for example, the intelligent-design theory about a bacterial flagellum. The naturalistic theory that proposes that the flagellum is complicated but not irreducibly complex can be

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