What is Creationism and Intelligent Design?

This is an older piece I wrote for another publication back on July 9, 2009.

For readers who are unaware of this movement that's been an almost constant fixture in American life since the mid 1800's I'm going to give some brief background information to get everyone up to speed.

Creationism, and its most recent form, Intelligent Design (I.D.), is a religiously based movement that is a