A spectre is haunting biology in America the spectre of Creationism. We scientists believed that this religious intruder had been fatally wounded in the aftermath of the Scopes trial. Sharing the ’fifties prestige of science with Our Friend, the Atom, the biology profession had, so we thought, nailed its coffin shut. But now, risen, garbed in the raiment of Intelligent Design, this poltergeist ...