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Asking for assistance, optimism and survivor desperation to contact the world conceptual idea with a message in a glass bottle with a cork washing away on sandy beach with the ocean in the background
Casey Luskin
March 1, 2016
Intelligent Design

A Slightly Technical Introduction to Intelligent Design

Casey Luskin
March 1, 2016
Intelligent Design
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 inferred by studying the informational properties of natural objects to determine if they bear the type of information that in our experience arises from an intelligent cause. Proponents of neo-Darwinian evolution contend that the information in life arose via purposeless, blind, and unguided processes. ID proponents argue that this information arose via purposeful, intelligently guided processes. Both claims are scientifically testable using the standard methods of science. But ID theorists say that when we use the scientific method to explore nature, the evidence points away from unguided material causes, and reveals intelligent design. Read More ›
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The Center for Science and Culture
September 5, 2014
Intelligent Design

Essential Readings

The Center for Science and Culture
September 5, 2014
Intelligent Design

10 Essential Articles “A Scientific History and Philosophical Defense of Intelligent Design”Stephen C. Meyer “Are We Alone?”Jay W. Richards & Guillermo GonzalezThe American Spectator “Science & Design”William DembskiFirst Things “DNA and Other Designs”Stephen C. MeyerFirst Things “Molecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inference”Michael J. BeheCosmic Pursuit “Intelligent Design is not Creationism”Stephen C MeyerThe Daily Telegraph (London) “Evolution: Debate it”John Read More ›

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The Center for Science and Culture
August 21, 2006
Intelligent Design

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design

The Center for Science and Culture
August 21, 2006
Intelligent Design
If you want a book full of fascinating anecdotes and straight-talk about the debate over Darwinism and intelligent design, written by a credentialed biologist with enjoyable writing skills, this truly is the book for you. Read More ›
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Audience raising hands up while businessman is speaking in training at the office.
Discovery Institute
September 8, 2005
Intelligent Design

Top Questions and Answers About Intelligent Design Theory

Discovery Institute
September 8, 2005
Intelligent Design
The Center for Science and Culture answers some of the most common questions about intelligent design: What is the theory of intelligent design? Is intelligent design theory the same as creationism? Is intelligent design theory incompatible with evolution? Read More ›
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Del Ratzsch
November 15, 2004
Intelligent Design

Book Review: Design Theory and its Critics

Del Ratzsch
November 15, 2004
Intelligent Design
The present book - Intelligent Design Creationism and its Critics - is intended as a sourcebook of materials from both sides of the present debate. The editor, Robert T. Pennock, who is a vocal critic of ID, takes it that ID claims fail more or less on all fronts, and while giving both sides a platform, intends for the present volume to make ID's untenability (as he sees it) amply clear. Read More ›
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A sculptor sculpts a sculpture of a person's face. Horizontal frame
William A. Dembski
August 1, 2003
Intelligent Design

Encyclopedia Entry on Intelligent Design

William A. Dembski
August 1, 2003
Intelligent Design

Intelligent design begins with a seemingly innocuous question: Can objects, even if nothing is known about how they arose, exhibit features that reliably signal the action of an intelligent cause? To see what’s at stake, consider Mount Rushmore. The evidence for Mount Rushmore’s design is direct — eyewitnesses saw the sculptor Gutzon Borglum spend the better part of his life Read More ›