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^{Stephen C. Meyer
October 7, 2008
Intelligent Design}

A Scientific History and Philosophical Defense of the Theory of Intelligent Design

_{Stephen C. Meyer
October 7, 2008
Intelligent Design}

In December of 2004, the 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 that same month, the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit to prevent a Dover, Pennsylvania school district from informing its students that they could learn about the theory of intelligent design from a supplementary science textbook in their school library. The following February, The Wall Street Journal (Klinghoffer 2005) reported that an evolutionary biologist at the Smithsonian Institution with two doctorates had been punished for publishing a peer-reviewed scientific article making a case for intelligent design. Read More ›

^{Robin Collins
September 1, 1998
Intelligent Design}

The Fine-Tuning Design Argument

_{Robin Collins
September 1, 1998
Intelligent Design}

I. Introduction The Evidence of Fine-tuning1 Suppose we went on a mission to Mars, and found a domed structure in which everything was set up just right for life to exist. The temperature, for example, was set around 70o F and the humidity was at 50%; moreover, there was an oxygen recycling system, an energy gathering system, and a whole Read More ›

Child dressed in cardboard astronaut costume and rocket

^{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 ›

^{Mark L. Plummer
March 1, 1998
Uncategorized}

Burying the Engine

_{Mark L. Plummer
March 1, 1998
Uncategorized}

When my children are grown, I hope they think of themselves as environmentalists, if that means they are filled with wonder at the sight of a bald eagle and the workings of a wetland. And I hope they think of themselves as humanists, if that means they are equally filled with wonder at the sight of a Van Gogh painting and the workings of the New York Stock Exchange or even an internal combustion engine. 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 ›

^{November 1, 1995
Intelligent Design}

By Design

_{November 1, 1995
Intelligent Design}

A Whitworth professor, Stephen Meyer, takes a controversial stand to show that life was no accident. Read More ›