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"As Christians, we know that naturalism is wrong." William
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"[The]...really serious issue in science education is the
systematic misrepresentation of evidence for Darwinism in biology
textbooks." Press release from the Discovery Institute criticizing the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation's study of the
teaching of evolution in U.S. public schools, issued 2000-OCT-2. 1 |
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"[Intelligent design] must be ranked as one of the greatest achievements in the history of science [rivaling] those of Newton and Einstein, Lavoisier and Schrodinger, Pasteur, and Darwin." Michael Behe2 |
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"The Intelligent design hypothesis has one major flaw: it
requires one to believe that a competent, thinking, omnipotent, divine
being created the platypus: a venomous, egg-laying, duck billed mammal."
Anon. |
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"I have a bone to pick with God. If he designed the human
body, why did he route the male urethra directly through the middle of
the prostate gland, thus causing incredible problems for men as they
advance in years."
Anon |
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"Ignorance on your part about natural processes does not imply intervention on God's part." Another Anon. |
About Intelligent Design (ID):
Scientists at the Discovery Institute in Seattle, WA, and a few isolated scientists elsewhere in the world, are promoting a new theory of the origin of plant and animal species. They offer Intelligent Design (ID) as an alternative to the Theory of Evolution.
Evolution is supported by over 99% of biological and earth scientists. Supporters of ID base their beliefs on various structures in animals and plants that they feel could not have developed through natural selection. They conclude that the structures must have been designed by a form of intelligence far superior to that possessed by humans.
Conservative Protestants have embraced ID with enthusiasm, because if ID is true, then one of many possible designers could be Yahweh whose creation activities are described in Genesis -- the first book of the Hebrew Scriptures and the Holy Bible. They want to see ID taught in the public schools along with the Theory of Evolution.
The existence of a superior intelligence who is responsible for the design is not necessarily a God. It could be, for example, a human-like race of space travelers who came to earth and created new structures.
One aspect of ID may be a ticking time-bomb for religious conservatives: scientists promoting ID generally accept that the earth has been present, and that species have been changing, for many billion of years. Although this is compatible with some interpretations of the creation stories in Genesis, most conservative Protestants support a new Earth whose age is less than 10,000 years.
Topics covered in this section:
| Overview of ID | ||||
| ID beliefs. The origin of ID. Observations
supporting the theory | ||||
| ID vs. other beliefs about origins. What
does the ID God look like? | ||||
| ID promotional & political aspects | ||||
| Opinions
about ID, mostly by scientists | ||||
| ID State legislation pending | ||||
| Lawsuits about teaching ID in public schools:
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| Zogby's public opinion poll on ID | ||||
| Information sources | ||||
| ID in the media (2005-AUG to
now) | ||||
|  Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" A film by Ben Stein about
ID and evolution |
Books on Intelligent Design:
The following books are the result of a search of the Amazon.com book data base for "Intelligent Design."
If you see a generic Amazon.com ad here, please click on your browser's refresh key.
References used:
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"F' is for Fordham: Report on Evolution Ignores Real Problems, Says Discovery Institute," News release, 2000-SEP-26, at: http://www.jodkowski.pl/
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Michael Behe, "Darwin's Black Box:, as quoted by H. Allen Orr, "Darwin v. Intelligent Design," a skeptical book review of "Darwin's Black Box," at: http://bostonreview.mit.edu/
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Copyright © 2001 to 2010 by Ontario Consultants on Religious
Tolerance
Originally written: 2001-JAN-14
Latest update: 2010-OCT-09
Author: B.A. Robinson
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