It's a pretty hot topic. Religious folk have been looking for years to find a theory to rival evolution. They think they have found it in "Intelligent Design Theory" (ID). Here is an article that presents arguments for and counter-arguments against ID.
Personally, I share the thoughts of Kenneth Miller, who says,
If Behe wishes to suggest that the intricacies of nature, life, and the universe reveal a world of meaning and purpose consistent with a divine intelligence, his point is philosophical, not scientific. It is a philosophical point of view, incidentally, that I share. However, to support that view, one should not find it necessary to pretend that we know less than we really do about the evolution of living systems. In the final analysis, the biochemical hypothesis of intelligent design fails not because the scientific community is closed to it but rather for the most basic of reasons -- because it is overwhelmingly contradicted by the scientific evidence.
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