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Panda and other animals dressed like people

^{Jonathan Witt
December 20, 2005
Intelligent Design}

Dover Judge Regurgitates Mythological History of Intelligent Design

_{Jonathan Witt
December 20, 2005
Intelligent Design}

Several newspapers covering today’s Kitzmiller vs. Dover ruling against intelligent design are highlighting Judge John Jones’ spurious determination that intelligent design is creationism in disguise. They’re accurately reporting the judge’s opinion here, for his decision reads like a condensation of atheist-activist Barbara Forrest’s mythological history of intelligent design. The Christian Science Monitor reports that the judge decided that “‘Intelligent design’ is just Read More ›

Amazing moment ,Monarch Butterfly, pupae and cocoons are suspend

^{Fred Reed
March 8, 2005
Intelligent Design}

The Metaphysics of Evolution

_{Fred Reed
March 8, 2005
Intelligent Design}

I was about fifteen when I began to think about evolution. I was then just discovering the sciences systematically, and took them as what they offered themselves to be, a realm of reason and dispassionate regard for truth. There was a hard-edged clarity to them that I liked. You got real answers. Since evolution depended on such sciences as chemistry, Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer
January 1, 2000
Intelligent Design}

The Demarcation of Science and Religion

_{Stephen C. Meyer
January 1, 2000
Intelligent Design}

What is science? What is religion? How do the two intersect? Historians of science address these questions by analyzing how the scientific and religious beliefs of particular scientists or cultures have interacted at specific times. Philosophers of science and religion, however, have sought to characterize the relationship between them in more general terms. Their endeavor has required defining science and religion in order to distinguish or "demarcate" them from each other by clear and objective criteria. During modern times, theologians and philosophers of science have attempted to make categorical demarcations between science and religion on various definitional grounds. Read More ›

Two people having coffee across from each other

^{William A. Dembski and Stephen C. Meyer
September 1, 1998
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design}

Fruitful Interchange or Polite Chitchat?

_{William A. Dembski and Stephen C. Meyer
September 1, 1998
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design}

The demand that epistemic support be explicated as rational compulsion has consistently undermined the dialogue between theology and science. Rational compulsion entails too restrictive a form of epistemic support for most scientific theorizing, let alone interdisciplinary dialogue. This essay presents a less restrictive form of epistemic support, explicated not as rational compulsion but as explanatory power. Once this notion of epistemic support is developed, a genuinely productive interdisciplinary dialogue between theology and science becomes possible. This essay closes by sketching how the Big Bang model from cosmology and the Christian doctrine of Creation can be viewed as supporting each other. Read More ›

^{David Berlinski
September 1, 1998
Intelligent Design}

What Brings a World into Being?

_{David Berlinski
September 1, 1998
Intelligent Design}

Since their inception in the 17th century, the modern sciences have been given over to a majestic vision: there is nothing in nature but atoms and the void. This is hardly a new thought, of course; in the ancient world, it received its most memorable expression in Lucretius' On the Nature of Things. But it has been given contemporary resonance in theories--like general relativity and quantum mechanics--of terrifying (and inexplicable) power. If brought to a successful conclusion, the trajectory of this search would yield a single theory that would subsume all other theories and, in its scope and purity, would be our only necessary intellectual edifice. 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 ›

^{Charles Thaxton
September 1, 1994
Intelligent Design}

A New Design Argument

_{Charles Thaxton
September 1, 1994
Intelligent Design}

Just when scientists thought they understood how natural processes explained the order of the universe, they discovered a very special kind of complexity, called information, in nature. Experience had taught them that, wherever they found information, they could be sure of finding an intelligence behind it. As a result of 20th century discoveries, scientists are learning that the very methods they had used to discover natural causes (reasoning from experience) now point to an intelligent cause. Read More ›

Garden with walkways and green grass. Photo taken from above drone.

^{David Berlinski
June 1, 1994
Intelligent Design}

The End of Materialist Science

_{David Berlinski
June 1, 1994
Intelligent Design}

Simply the thing you are shall make you live. Old Spanish Proverb For the moment, we are all waiting for the gate of time to open. The heroic era of scientific exploration appears at an end, the large aching questions settled. An official ideology is everywhere in evidence and everywhere resisted. From the place where space and time are curved Read More ›