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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 ›

Dinosaur Fossil (Tyrannosaurus Rex) Found by Archaeologists

^{Casey Luskin
September 8, 2008
Intelligent Design}

Intelligent Design Has Scientific Merit in Paleontology

_{Casey Luskin
September 8, 2008
Intelligent Design}

[Editor’s note: This article was posted as part of a series of articles both for and against ID at OpposingViews.com.] “What one actually found was nothing but discontinuities. All species are separated from each other by bridgeless gaps; intermediates between species are not observed. … The problem was even more serious at the level of the higher categories.”1—Leading 20th Century Read More ›

^{Logan Paul Gage
May 29, 2008
Intelligent Design}

Where the Evidence Leads

_{Logan Paul Gage
May 29, 2008
Intelligent Design}

This review appears in the May 2008 issue of The American Spectator. There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind Antony Flew with Roy Abraham Varghese (HarperOne, 256 pages, $24.95) Antony Flew has long been my favorite atheist. That may be an odd thing for the son of a minister to say, but then again, Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer
June 30, 2007
Intelligent Design}

DNA and the Origin of Life

_{Stephen C. Meyer
June 30, 2007
Intelligent Design}

This article appears in the peer-reviewed* volume Darwinism, Design, and Public Education published with Michigan State University Press. Stephen C. Meyer contends that intelligent design provides a better explanation than competing chemical evolutionary models for the origin of the information present in large biomacromolecules such as DNA, RNA, and proteins. Meyer shows that the term information as applied to DNA connotes not only improbability or complexity but also specificity of function. He then argues that neither chance nor necessity, nor the combination of the two, can explain the origin of information starting from purely physical-chemical antecedents. Instead, he argues that our knowledge of the causal powers of both natural entities and intelligent agency suggests intelligent design as the best explanation for the origin of the information necessary to build a cell in the first place. Read More ›

^{William A. Dembski
May 16, 2006
Intelligent Design}

Mere Creation

_{William A. Dembski
May 16, 2006
Intelligent Design}

This extensive volume contains essays by numerous Discovery Fellows who presented at an early intelligent design conference at Biola University in 1996. As Henry F. Shaefer III explains in the forward, the conference was not a typical “creationist” event, as “virtually none of the conference participants were creationists of the sort one frequently reads about in the popular press” and Read More ›

^{The Center for Science and Culture
February 3, 2006
Intelligent Design}

The Truth About Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture

_{The Center for Science and Culture
February 3, 2006
Intelligent Design}

Misinformation and mischaracterization are rampant in the media coverage of the debate over evolution. Because Discovery Institute’s views and positions recently have been inaccurately reported, and because Discovery Fellows have been maligned in the media in the past, over the past few years we have published a number of Truth Sheets to set the record straight. Read More ›

^{February 14, 2003
Uncategorized}

Damage Control at the AAAS

_{February 14, 2003
Uncategorized}

The AAAS Board Resolution on intelligent-design theory represents the scientific establishments latest effort to insulate evolutionary biology from critique and discussion. The challenge of intelligent design for evolutionary biology is real. This is not like someone who claims that ancient technologies could not have built the pyramids, so goblins must have done it. We can show how, with the technological Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer
February 1, 2001
Intelligent Design}

Signs of Intelligence

_{Stephen C. Meyer
February 1, 2001
Intelligent Design}

According to media reports and the judge in Pennsylvania, the theory is just a "faith-based" alternative to evolution, based solely on religion rather than scientific evidence. But is this accurate? As one of the architects of the theory, I know it's not. Read More ›

fossil trilobite imprint in the sediment. An imprint of history. Fossil trilobite in rock.

^{Joseph A. D'Agostino
June 16, 2000
Intelligent Design}

Conversion of a Darwinist

_{Joseph A. D'Agostino
June 16, 2000
Intelligent Design}

Up until a year or so ago, I believed in evolution. Since then I have undergone a conversion to an entirely different way of thinking, a conversion that is currently provoking a counterrevolution in the way I think about everything. Read More ›

Photo of gray-yellow alkaline AA batteries on blue background. Recycling of rechargeable NiMH batteries. The most popular size of accumulators. Copy space.

^{Casey Luskin
January 24, 2000
Intelligent Design}

The Positive Case for Design

_{Casey Luskin
January 24, 2000
Intelligent Design}

Many critics of intelligent design have argued that design is merely a negative argument against evolution. This could not be further from the truth. Leading design theorist William Dembski has observed that “[t]he principle characteristic of intelligent agency is directed contingency, or what we call choice.”1 By observing the sorts of choices that intelligent agents commonly make when designing systems, a positive case Read More ›