An advocate of intelligent design, Sanford testified in 2005 in the Kansas evolution hearings on behalf of intelligent design, during which he denied the principle of common descent and "humbly offered... that we were created by a special creation, by God".
Sanford, an advocate for intelligent design, presented his views in the 2005 Kansas hearing on evolution, arguing against the idea of shared ancestry and instead proposing that humans were brought into existence by a divine force.