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^{Stephen C. Meyer
July 4, 1996
Intelligent Design}

“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” In Biology Instruction

_{Stephen C. Meyer
July 4, 1996
Intelligent Design}

All across the country-from Maine to California, from Virginia to Washington state-school boards, teachers and parents have begun to defy the expertise of professional science educators. Many are now insisting that students to gain access to scientific information challenging the contemporary Darwinist account of biological origins. Read More ›

^{June 14, 1996
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Teleology & Science

_{June 14, 1996
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As a product of the government schools and universities, I was always under the impression that the argument about design began with William Paley and ended with Charles Darwin. In fact, in keeping with my indoctrination about the warfare between science and religion, I was under the impression that design was strictly a religious issue and objective science, ala Darwin, Read More ›

^{Phillip E. Johnson
June 10, 1996
Intelligent Design}

Reflections on C. S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength

_{Phillip E. Johnson
June 10, 1996
Intelligent Design}

Most futuristic novels seem out-of-date after a decade or two, but That Hideous Strength is more timely today than when the book was published in 1945. On the day I began to reread the book for this essay, the press reported that a British government agency called the Human Fertilization and Embryological Authority (HFEA) is sounding out public opinion about Read More ›

^{Nancy Pearcey
June 1, 1996
Intelligent Design}

DNA: The Message in the Message

_{Nancy Pearcey
June 1, 1996
Intelligent Design}

We are so conditioned to expect scientific breakthroughs that exceed our expectations, Barr observed, that we reflexively reject any idea that science has limits. Yet science reveals not only the rich possibilities of nature but also its limitations. To give obvious examples, we know that we will never fulfill the alchemists’ dream of chemically transmuting lead into gold. We know that a parent of one species will never give birth to offspring of another species. Science reveals consistent patterns that allow us to make negative statements about what natural forces cannot do. To persist in seeking natural laws in such cases, Barr suggested, is as irrational as any primitive myth of the thunder gods. Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer
April 1, 1996
Intelligent Design}

The Origin of Life and the Death of Materialism

_{Stephen C. Meyer
April 1, 1996
Intelligent Design}

Introduction Alfred North Whitehead once said that “when we consider what religion is for mankind and what science is, it is no exaggeration to say that the future course of history depends upon the decision of this generation as to the relations between them.” Whitehead spoke early in this century at a time when most elite intellectuals believed that science Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer and Charles Thaxton
November 13, 1994
Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design}

Human Rights: Blessed by God or Begrudged by Government

_{Stephen C. Meyer and Charles Thaxton
November 13, 1994
Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design}

Even as the double-helix discovery, the quantum theory and the development of a polio vaccine have manifested some of man's most ennobling capabilities, the gulags and gas chambers have demonstrated with equal force that scientific prowess alone does not confirm the existence of civilization — if civilization is to be measured by a commitment to protecting human rights. Read More ›

^{Robert C. Koons
September 1, 1994
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The Incompatibility of Naturalism and Scientific Realism

_{Robert C. Koons
September 1, 1994
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^{Phillip E. Johnson
June 1, 1994
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Articles by Phillip E. Johnson

_{Phillip E. Johnson
June 1, 1994
Uncategorized}

This page links to the Phillip E. Johnson page maintained by the Access Research Network. Read More ›

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^{Stephen C. Meyer
December 6, 1993
Intelligent Design}

Danger: Indoctrination

_{Stephen C. Meyer
December 6, 1993
Intelligent Design}

A distinguished biology professor, Dean Kenyon, was forbidden to teach his course not because he taught evolutionary theory (which he did) but because he offered a critical assessment of it. Read More ›

^{Multiple Authors
May 2, 1993
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Homology:

_{Multiple Authors
May 2, 1993
Uncategorized}

Before Darwin, homology was defined morphologically and explained by reference to ideal archetypes -- that is, to intelligent design. Darwin reformulated biology in naturalistic* rather than teleological terms, and explained homology as the result of descent with modification from a common ancestor. Descent with modification, however, renders design unnecessary only if it is due entirely tonaturalistic mechanisms. Two such mechanisms have been proposed, genetic programs and developmental pathways, but neither one fits the evidence. Without an empirically demonstrated naturalistic mechanism to account for homology, design remains a possibility which can only be excluded on the basis of questionable philosophical assumptions. * In this article, "naturalism" and "naturalistic" refer to the philosophical doctrine that nature is the whole of reality, and that intelligent causation does not qualify as a scientific explanation. Read More ›