It's the nature of bureaucracy, I think, to issue statements like this.

Intelligent design relies on physical, empirical, observable evidence from nature plus logical inferences.

Their business here was over then, and they all knew it; the magic moment had arrived when it was understood that nothing more would be established, discovered, or decided today. But the meeting, having once begun, must drag on for several long more hours before it could be ended. The engines of protocol had enormous inertial mass; once set in motion they took forever to grind to a stop.

The privacy laws are paramount. They come before even common sense...

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.