Intelligent Design An acquaintance pointed me to the following study that surveyed science professors in Ohio. It tested the idea (common among proponents of Intelligent Design) that evolution is losing favor among scientists. The short of it is that over 90% of scientists that responded (31% response rate, with the sample size being 460) believed Intelligent Design was a "religious theory," and not part of the scientific discourse. The context is of course a proposal in Ohio to give some legitimacy to Intelligent Design in the secondary educational curriculum.