Intelligent Design Susan Beerman This "American manifesto"

This "American manifesto"

In "Kinship Across Borders"

while telling the story of his challenging life

the former Shaker and self-described Thomas Paine infidel became the most successful publisher of free-thought literature in America - perhaps the world

but in contemporary US politics it has become a particularly insistent one

Intelligent Design Susan Beerman This "American manifesto"In some school districts in America, the biology classroom has become the focal point of an old controversy in new guise. Reminiscent of the arguments heard in the famous Scopes 'monkey trial' of 1925, today's debate centres on the teaching of Intelligent Design (ID) versus conventional evolutionary theory. Proponents of ID argue that evolution does not adequately explain the latest discoveries of biology and that Intelligent Design should be offered