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^{Stephen C. Meyer
February 15, 2011
Intelligent Design}

Sauce for the Goose

_{Stephen C. Meyer
February 15, 2011
Intelligent Design}

Judge Jones, in his Kitzmiller v. Dover opinion expressed an entrenched view common not only among members of the media and scientific establishment. But why isn’t the theory of intelligent design scientific? On what basis do critics of the theory make that claim? And is it justified? Read More ›

^{Jay W. Richards
December 9, 2009
Intelligent Design}

Does Science Have a Magisterium?

_{Jay W. Richards
December 9, 2009
Intelligent Design}

At National Review Online, conservative curmudgeon John Derbyshire has weighed in on the Climategate scandal by encouraging conservatives not to jump on the anti-science bandwagon. I share his worry and find his advice is good so far as it goes; but I think Derbyshire’s defense of science might actually encourage the skepticism he wants to prevent. Most of the trouble comes from Read More ›

^{Jay W. Richards
October 13, 2008
Intelligent Design}

Is There Merit for ID in Cosmology, Physics, and Astronomy?

_{Jay W. Richards
October 13, 2008
Intelligent Design}

Although much of the public controversy over intelligent design has centered on biology and Darwinian evolution, the evidence for intelligent design goes far beyond biology. There’s especially intriguing evidence of design in cosmology, physics, and astronomy. To say that ID has merit in cosmology and physics, I mean that there is positive evidence for ID in those parts of nature Read More ›

^{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 ›

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^{Casey Luskin
September 8, 2008
Intelligent Design}

Intelligent Design (ID) Has Scientific Merit Because it Uses the Scientific Method to Make its Claims and Infers Design by Testing its Positive Predictions

_{Casey Luskin
September 8, 2008
Intelligent Design}

“In all irreducibly complex systems in which the cause of the system is known by experience or observation, intelligent design or engineering played a role [in] the origin of the system.”1 Stephen C. Meyer (Ph.D. Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University) & Scott Minnich (Professor of Microbiology, University of Idaho). Intelligent design (ID) has scientific merit because it uses the scientific Read More ›

^{Casey Luskin
July 28, 2008
Intelligent Design}

Is “Evolution” a “Theory” or “Fact” or Is This Just a Trivial Game of Semantics?

_{Casey Luskin
July 28, 2008
Intelligent Design}

"The Darwinist claim that 'theory' is always and exclusively used by scientists to mean a verified and well-established explanation is a fiction invented by Darwinists seeking grounds to scold as ignorant those Darwin-skeptics who call evolution 'just a theory.'" Read More ›

^{Casey Luskin, J.P. Moreland, Jay W. Richards, Logan Paul Gage, Michael J. Behe and Phillip E. Johnson
March 11, 2008
Intelligent Design}

Intelligent Design 101

_{Casey Luskin, J.P. Moreland, Jay W. Richards, Logan Paul Gage, Michael J. Behe and Phillip E. Johnson
March 11, 2008
Intelligent Design}

Intelligent Design 101 brings together leading scholars and researchers from the fields of science and intelligent design studies, such as Michael Behe and Phillip Johnson. Their detailed and insightful essays form an introduction to intelligent design, from the basics of the theory, to its history and growing place in science and education. Read More ›

^{Alvin Plantinga
March 7, 2006
Intelligent Design}

Whether ID is Science isn’t Semantics

_{Alvin Plantinga
March 7, 2006
Intelligent Design}

Judge John Jones’ 139-page opinion in Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District raises questions that go far beyond the legalities of this specific case. I won’t offer an opinion on whether the judge’s decision is correct — although apparently he’s never met an objection to intelligent design he doesn’t like and some of his “findings” seem vastly more sweeping than Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer
November 13, 2005
Intelligent Design}

The Scientific Status of Intelligent Design

_{Stephen C. Meyer
November 13, 2005
Intelligent Design}

Underlying Darwin's repudiation of creationist legitimacy lay an entirely different conception of science than had prevailed among earlier naturalists. Darwin's attacks on his creationist and idealist opponents in part expressed and in part established an emerging positivistic "episteme" in which the mere mention of unverifiable "acts of Divine will" or "the plan of creation" would increasingly serve to disqualify theories from consideration as science qua science. 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 ›