Different people answer that question differently.
Yet the answer to that question cannot simply be a personal matter, relegated to private musings during our quiet moments. No one in recent years has forced us to look at that issue more profoundly that Berkeley law professor Phillip Johnson. The media tends to caricature the debate as a contest between Bible-waving, illiterate creationists from the backwoods on the one hand, and modern scientific rationalists on the other. The issue, however, is not that simple. Since Johnson burst onto the intellectual scene a few years ago, he has stimulated a small group of science writers to reexamine the evidence.