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^{Michael J. Behe

February 3, 2006

Intelligent Design}

Whether Intelligent Design is Science

_{Michael J. Behe

February 3, 2006

Intelligent Design}

Senior Fellow, Dr. Michael Behe, testified as an expert witness in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School Board intelligent design trial in 2005. Judge Jones issued a ruling against the school board and in so doing asserted that intelligent design was not based on science. Dr. Behe disagrees, and here we publish his direct responses to many claims of the Court. Read More ›

^{Michael J. Behe

January 1, 2006

Intelligent Design}

Michael Behe on Molecular Exploitation and the Theory of Irreducible Complexity

_{Michael J. Behe

January 1, 2006

Intelligent Design}

The bottom line of the study is this: the authors started with a protein which already had the ability to strongly interact with three kinds of steroid hormones (aldosterone, cortisol, and “DOC” [11-deoxycorticosterone]). After introducing several simple mutations the protein interacted much more weakly with all of those steroids. In other words, a pre-existing ability was decreased. Read More ›

^{Casey Luskin

December 12, 2005

Intelligent Design}

What Is Intelligent Design?

_{Casey Luskin

December 12, 2005

Intelligent Design}

Intelligent design is a scientific theory which states that some aspects of nature are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected cause such as natural selection. Design theorists argue that we can find biological structures with the same informational properties we commonly find in objects we know were designed. Design theorists observe that intelligent action produces large Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer

December 1, 2005

Intelligent Design}

Not By Chance

_{Stephen C. Meyer

December 1, 2005

Intelligent Design}

In December 2004, a renowned British philosopher, Antony Flew, made worldwide news when he repudiated a lifelong commitment to atheism, citing among other factors, evidence of intelligent design in the DNA molecule. In December, the ACLU filed suit to prevent a Dover, Penn. school district from informing its students about the theory of intelligent design. And in February, The Wall Street Journal reported that an evolutionary biologist with two doctorates had been punished for publishing a peer-reviewed scientific article making a case for this same theory. More recently, the Pope, the President of the United States and the Dalai Lama have each weighed in on the subject. But what is this theory of intelligent design? And why does it arouse such passion and inspire such apparently determined efforts to suppress it? Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer

November 13, 2005

Intelligent Design}

The Scientific Status of Intelligent Design

_{Stephen C. Meyer

November 13, 2005

Intelligent Design}

Underlying Darwin's repudiation of creationist legitimacy lay an entirely different conception of science than had prevailed among earlier naturalists. Darwin's attacks on his creationist and idealist opponents in part expressed and in part established an emerging positivistic "episteme" in which the mere mention of unverifiable "acts of Divine will" or "the plan of creation" would increasingly serve to disqualify theories from consideration as science qua science. Read More ›

^{Michael J. Behe

February 7, 2005

Intelligent Design}

Design for Living

_{Michael J. Behe

February 7, 2005

Intelligent Design}

Bethlehem, Pa. | IN the wake of the recent lawsuits over the teaching of Darwinian evolution, there has been a rush to debate the merits of the rival theory of intelligent design. As one of the scientists who have proposed design as an explanation for biological systems, I have found widespread confusion about what intelligent design is and what it Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer

February 24, 2001

Intelligent Design}

Teach the Controversy

_{Stephen C. Meyer

February 24, 2001

Intelligent Design}

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Intelligent Design Coming Clean

_{William A. Dembski

November 17, 2000

Intelligent Design}

1. Cards on the Table In the movie Dream Team starring Michael Keaton, Keaton plays a psychiatric patient who must feign sanity to save his psychiatrist from being murdered. In protesting his sanity, Keaton informs two New York City policemen that he doesn’t wear womens clothing, that he’s never danced around Times Square naked, and that he doesn’t talk to Read More ›

^{Michael J. Behe

July 31, 2000

Intelligent Design, Research & Analysis}

In Defense of the Irreducibility of the Blood Clotting Cascade

_{Michael J. Behe

July 31, 2000

Intelligent Design, Research & Analysis}

Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution I devoted a chapter to the mechanism of blood clotting, arguing that it is irreducibly complex and therefore a big problem for Darwinian evolution. Since my book came out, as far as I am aware there have been no papers published in the scientific literature giving a detailed scenario or experiments to show how natural selection could have built the system. However three scientists publishing outside science journals have attempted to respond. Read More ›

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^{Michael J. Behe

July 31, 2000

Intelligent Design}

A Mousetrap Defended

_{Michael J. Behe

July 31, 2000

Intelligent Design}

In Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution I coined the term "irreducible complexity" in order to point out an apparent problem for the Darwinian evolution of some biochemical and cellular systems. In brief, an irreducibly complex system is one that needs several well-matched parts, all working together, to perform its function. Read More ›