By day, Roger Highfield is a mild-mannered science journalist, author and broadcaster. But under that crisp white lab coat beats the heart of his alter ego, Boffin...

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I am the Editor of New Scientist, the world's leading science and technology weekly. Here is the latest issue:

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Intelligent Design

Imagine if every great thinker had invoked an intelligent designer when they hit a road block in their efforts to understand the world. Why did that apple fall from a tree? That pesky intelligent designer pushed it, of course. How are characteristics passed down generations? The intelligent designer made it so. Why does entropy increase? It was the ID guy. Science is an endless dialogue between experiment and theory but how can we design an experiment to show the ...

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