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When Did Life Begin? Its an age-old question--when did life begin? A new CBS news poll shows most Americans wouldnt peer into the universe for their answer. They would open their Bible Fifty-one percent believe that God created humans in our present form and forty-eight percent of those polled believe God created humans within the least 10000 years, even though scientific tests on skull fragments found in Ethiopia indicate humans were walking the earth nearly 200000 years ago. The poll results underscore a long-runing divide in America over evolution, science and Gods role, creationism. The US Supreme Court has barred the teaching of creationism in public schools, but now there is a new challenge, called Intelligent Design which suggests a creator has an active hand at the development of species. Steven Mayor is an advocate of Intelligent Design. And what we have found in the study of biology is, number one there are such purposeful messages inscribed in DNA. And secondly, the attempts to explain the origin of that information by reference to purely physical chemical undirected processes has utterly failed over quite a number of decades. Dover Pennsylvania school officials are on trial right now in federal court sued by parents who dont want Intelligent Design in the curriculum. Critics, even some theologians say Inteligent Design is Creationism by another name. Intelligent Design, to put it very simply is, to me, a modern reformulation of an old theological argument for the existence of God. The Dover Pennsylvania school trial is expected to end early next month. Whatever the outcome, some legal observers believe it has a potential to reach the US Supreme Court at a time of growing political influenc