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^{Phillip E. Johnson
June 1, 1998
Intelligent Design}

Objections Sustained

_{Phillip E. Johnson
June 1, 1998
Intelligent Design}

Objections Sustained is a collection of essays by UC Berkeley law professor Phillip Johnson, also the Program Advisor to Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. In the first half of the book, Johnson presents nine short chapters about Darwinists and Darwinism. Johnson first takes aim at the myth that science and religion occupy completely separate realms. This myth, formally Read More ›

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^{John Mark N. Reynolds
June 1, 1998
Intelligent Design}

Are There Gaps in the Gapless Economy?

_{John Mark N. Reynolds
June 1, 1998
Intelligent Design}

Van Till's view of "functional integrity," while perhaps yielding aesthetic advantages to modern taste in metaphysics and theory, is implausible when confronted with orthodox Christianity. In particular, Christianity maintains that a "gap" in the natural order exists at the formation of individual human souls. Functional integrity, however, allows for no such discontinuities. Van Till cannot escape this problem. He must either abandon orthodox Christian anthropology to make his view plausible, or restrict the scope of functional integrity where human beings are concerned. Read More ›

^{Mark Hartwig
June 1, 1998
Intelligent Design}

Evolution Theater

_{Mark Hartwig
June 1, 1998
Intelligent Design}

One thing I love about the creation/evolution controversy is that it provides no end of amusement.Take the summer of 1999 for example. When the Kansas state board of education voted to de-emphasize the more speculative aspects of evolution in the state science standards, folks went wild. In a broadside published in Time, Harvard paleontologist and science writer Stephen Jay Gould Read More ›

Sunset over Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, U.S.A.

^{Walter Bradley
May 11, 1998
Intelligent Design}

Designed or Designoid

_{Walter Bradley
May 11, 1998
Intelligent Design}

Richard Dawkins begins climbing Mount Improbable by contrasting two rock formations (Dawkins, 1996). The first is a weathered hillside in Hawaii that, when it is viewed from a certain direction at a certain time of day at a certain time of the year, casts a shadow that has a resemblance to John F. Kennedy. The second is the magnificent Mount Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer
March 29, 1998
Intelligent Design}

Let Schools Provide Full Disclosure

_{Stephen C. Meyer
March 29, 1998
Intelligent Design}

The recent news from Post Falls has an all too familiar ring. A group of religiously motivated parents is pressing for the teaching of creationism alongside Darwinian evolution. If they succeed, many fear the A.C.L.U. will sue the school district. On the surface, the Post Falls controversy appears to be yet another dreary and unproductive chapter in the American culture Read More ›

^{William A. Dembski
March 1, 1998
Intelligent Design}

The Intelligent Design Movement

_{William A. Dembski
March 1, 1998
Intelligent Design}

The Intelligent Design movement begins with the work of Charles Thaxton, Walter Bradley, Michael Denton, Dean Kenyon, and Phillip Johnson. Without employing the Bible as a scientific text, these scholars critiqued Darwinism on scientific and philosophical grounds. On scientific grounds they found Darwinism an inadequate framework for biology. On philosophical grounds they found Darwinism hopelessly entangled with naturalism, the view that nature is self-sufficient and thus without need of God or any guiding intelligence. More recently, scholars like Michael Behe, Stephen Meyer, Paul Nelson, Jonathan Wells, and myself have taken the next step, proposing a positive research program wherein intelligent causes become the key for understanding the diversity and complexity of life. Read More ›

^{Larry Witham
March 1, 1998
Intelligent Design}

How a theologian, two biologists see Darwin

_{Larry Witham
March 1, 1998
Intelligent Design}

In this trio of books on science, evolution, and God, John Polkinghorne best fits his self-described category of “scientist- theologian.” He is a world-class physicist, member of the British Royal Society and an Anglican priest. His Faith, Science and Understanding (Yale University Press, $19.95, 224 pages) strikes at the heart of the theology and science debate. Is theology a real Read More ›

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^{Michael J. Behe
March 1, 1998
Intelligent Design, Research & Analysis}

Molecular Machines

_{Michael J. Behe
March 1, 1998
Intelligent Design, Research & Analysis}

This article presents an overview of the key ideas in biochemist Michael Behe's book Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution. A more detailed discussion of these ideas can be found in the book itself. Those interested in the debate over intelligent design in biology should also check out Michael Behe's extensive responses to various critics. Read More ›

^{Michael J. Behe
February 9, 1998
Intelligent Design}

Review of Huxley: From Devil’s Disciple to Evolution’s High Priest by Adrian Desmond (Addison Wesley)

_{Michael J. Behe
February 9, 1998
Intelligent Design}

Darth Vader was a thoroughly bad man, destroying planets, kidnapping princesses, and such. That’s the way it should be-we like our movie villains uncomplicated. Mr. Vader’s only virtue was in begetting Luke Skywalker, and in the finale, after we had hissed for a few hours, that relationship was enough to redeem him. Yet what if the opening scenes of Star Read More ›

^{David Berlinski
February 1, 1998
Intelligent Design, Research & Analysis}

Was There a Big Bang?

_{David Berlinski
February 1, 1998
Intelligent Design, Research & Analysis}

Science is a congeries of great quests, and cosmology is the grandest of the great quests. Taking as its province the universe as a whole, cosmology addresses the old, the ineradicable questions about space and time, nature and destiny. It is not a subject for the tame or the timid. For the first half of the 20th century, cosmology remained Read More ›