This article appears in the Fall, 2015 issue of the legal journal Trinity Law Review, Vol. 21 (1), pp. 130-233, published by Trinity Law School. Click here for a PDF of the full article. Introduction The teaching of biological origins in public schools is a contentious and highly … » Go
Intelligent design — often called “ID” — is a scientific theory that holds that the emergence of some features of the universe and living things is best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection. ID theorists argue that design can be … » Go
Click here for a reproducible PDF of this article.PDF En Español Intelligent design — often called “ID” — is a scientific theory that holds that the emergence of some features of the universe and living things is best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected … » Go
Time flies. Published in 1996, Michael Behe’s book Darwin’s Black Box represented a major development in the modern articulation of the scientific argument for intelligent design. Critics continue to make the same arguments, which still fall flat for the identical reasons they did years … » Go
David Klinghoffer, Paul Nelson, William A. Dembski, Stephen C. Meyer, Casey Luskin, Douglas Axe, David Berlinski and Richard Sternberg
June 24, 2014
Stephen Meyer’s book Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design became a national bestseller, provoking a wide-ranging debate about the adequacy of Darwinian theory to explain life’s history. In Debating Darwin’s Doubt: A Scientific Controversy … » Go
Is it true that there are “no weaknesses” in evolutionary theory? All one must do is examine the technical scientific literature and inquire whether there are legitimate scientific challenges to chemical and biological evolution. This article reviews some of this literature and the … » Go
One of the dangers of enforcing “consensus science” is a lack of competition. Just as in business, when competitors aren’t allowed, the quality of the product suffers. Anyone who has dealt with a local cable company understands this truth. In science, this same principle can translate into a … » Go
An email correspondent recently wrote to me citing various challenges to Jonathan Wells’s book Icons of Evolution, including a critique by evolutionary biologist and philosopher Massimo Pigliucci in his 2002 book Denying Evolution: Creationism, Scientism, and the Nature of Science. This … » Go
Yes. Although open hostility from those who hold to neo-Darwinism sometimes makes it difficult for design scholars to gain a fair hearing for their ideas, research and articles supporting intelligent design are being published in peer-reviewed … » Go
Part 1: Introduction Writing for The Daily Beast about his 2014 debate with Stephen Meyer, theistic evolutionist Karl Giberson commented: I showed pictures of otherwise healthy humans who had been born with webbed feet and tails. I asked the challenging question: “Why does the … » Go
In 2009, the elites at London’s Natural History Museum decided to observe Darwin’s 200th birthday by commissioning a piece of artwork for the ceiling of an exhibit room. Titled “TREE,” the work was inspired by Darwin’s famous vision of a grand tree of life. Though BBC … » Go