What Do You Think About the Intelligent Design (ID) movement?
Frequently Asked Questions, Answers In CreationAny Christian who believes God created the world, in either the young or old earth system, believes in an intelligent designer. We support the ID movement in concept, but not necessarily its tactics. Creation Moments rebuttals are for their devotional style emails, which are Monday-Friday only. Many of their arguments are harmless God of the Gaps type arguments, with no implications for age of the earth issues. Creation Ministries International (CMI) rebuttals are for their featured articles.
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Reasons To Believe: Frequently Asked QuestionsPress Release: Creation Scientists Applaud PA Judge's Ruling Against 'Intelligent Design'-Dressing Up ID Is No Substitute for Real Science
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Understanding EvolutionActionBioScience reprints an article from Natural History magazine that describes intelligent design and compares its claims to those of evolutionary biologists. The TalkDesign website is devoted to explaining and assessing the claims of the intelligent design movement.
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FAQ: Intelligent Design, Designer, Irreducible Complexity an...Intelligent Design (ID) is a scientific theory that says evolution's naturalism is wrong: an Intelligent Designer is responsible for the origin of the universe and of life and its diversity. Of course not. The Intelligent Designer could be advanced aliens or the Christian God. We don't say which.
Related QuestionsKitzmiller v. Dover: Day 16, AM: William BuckinghamI'm not an expert on intelligent design. I don't know everything about intelligent design. I just know that it's another scientific theory that we thought would be good to have presented to the students. MR. GILLEN: Objection. Foundation. He just said he doesn't have a detailed understanding of intelligent design. THE COURT: Well, the question is different. It has to do with whether it's consistent with his personal belief. So I'll overrule the objection. You can answer the question. Mr.Related Questions
Is there anything Intelligent Design tells us about the Designer?
FAQ: Intelligent Design, Designer, Irreducible Complexity an...Definitely not. Creationism says that an Intelligent Creator created life. Intelligent Design says that an Intelligent Designer designed life. And just because most of our proponents are creationists, promote creationism, and do not understand any part of the theory of evolution or even Intelligent Design does not mean we are promoting Creationism.
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Kitzmiller v. Dover: Day 7, PM: Barbara ForrestThat came up in 1994 when I was involved in efforts to prevent the introduction into the science classes of Livingston Parish when I was involved in that effort that we talked about yesterday.
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Kitzmiller v. Dover: Day 7, PM: Barbara ForrestOkay. After you follow this quote of Dr. Behe, I just don't think that large scientific meetings are effective forums for presenting these ideas, end quote, you start the next sentence with, Yet, and you conclude that sentence with, he has made numerous presentations in churches, period. The scientific validity of irreducible complexity is something that has to be addressed by somebody other than myself. I am not a scientist. Professor Miller has already addressed that.
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Kitzmiller v. Dover: Day 6, PM: Barbara ForrestQuote, Let's begin with some history. The year 1997 marks a noteworthy turning point in the American debate over the science and philosophy of origins. In that year, a long cultural battle that had begun more than a quarter century earlier with Henry Morris and John Whitcomb's classic, The Genesis Flood, in 1961 appeared to many onlookers to have come decisively to an end when the Edwards v. Aguillard decision of the U.S.
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FAQ: Intelligent Design, Designer, Irreducible Complexity an...We want schools to teach the evidence against evolution and that alternatives to evolution exist, such as Intelligent design.
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FAQ: Intelligent Design, Designer, Irreducible Complexity an...Yes, by the boatload! Every year dozens of scientists in fields such as computer science, engineering, and pastry science have doubts about the validity of Evolution!. . . . .
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FAQ: Intelligent Design, Designer, Irreducible Complexity an...No, design arguments were put aside long ago because they are faulty: they assumed a design to prove that a designer exists. Intelligent Design is completely different. No, there really is a raging controversy, but most biologists don't know it because they only read "accepted", "peer-reviewed", or "good" scientific journals.
Related QuestionsIntroduction to the TalkDesign.org Site | TalkDesignThe beliefs of ID advocates vary greatly. But the core beliefs which they all appear to share are the following: a) The action of an intelligent (presumably conscious) being was involved in the evolution of living organisms. b) There already exists empirical evidence of this action, sufficient to justify a scientific inference that such action occurred. The term "Intelligent Design" usually refers to these beliefs together with the arguments which are made in support of them.Related Questions
Kitzmiller v. Dover Area: Day 3, AM: Robert PennockIntelligent design creationism is a movement that attempts to unite these various factions. I think it's best described as a strategy to take disparate views such as the ones that I have mentioned and to unite them against a common enemy. Nancy Pearcey in her recent book on "Total Truth" actually explains this very well.Related Questions
Truth In Science - Frequently Asked QuestionsThe theory of intelligent design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.Related Questions
I'm confused about Intelligent Design's stance on the theory of evolution, can you summarize it?
FAQ: Intelligent Design, Designer, Irreducible Complexity an...It seems like Intelligent Design isn't a theory itself, it's just a collection of arguments against evolution.
Related QuestionsHelp:FAQ - ResearchID.orgIntelligent design is an emerging research program which examines objects and events to determine whether they posess traits not adequately accounted for by undirected natural causes, but instead bear a degree of complexity and specification normally attributed to other objects and events we know to have had an intelligent cause.Related Questions
What do you think of the Open Gaming movement?
Sean's FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)I think the Open Gaming License is awesome. It gets rid of many of the problems of 90's TSR's stance on fan-created materials ("If you use the D&D format, we own it because we own D&D") and actually encourages other people (and other countries) to publish D&D-compatible works. This benefits three groups of people. The players. WotC has a limited number of people it can employ in its RPG department, and they'll never be able to create all of the products the fans want.
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Kitzmiller v. Dover: Day 15, AM: Steve William Fuller (conti...Well, the point is, you don't have to be religious to be able to develop it. I mean, I think that's the key point here, that even though historically it's been associated with a lot of religious people, one doesn't need to be religious.
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Kansas Evolution Hearings: John Sanford and Robert DiSilvest...I wouldn't say simply, but I-- I do know that when-- when surveys have been taken, whereas 40 percent of scientists believe in God, only 4 percent of the National Academy members do. So I do believe it-- it represents a limited cross-section of scientists, yes. And they're self-selected. You have to be-- you're-- you're elected by existing members, so there is a tendency for that group to be homogeneous and self-selecting.
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FAQsID is fresh thought and a new perspective under which to examine the origins of life conceived by people, many of them scientists themselves, who have long understood that Darwinism has some serious problems when viewed objectively under the strict microscope of the scientific method. ID is a scientific methodology, but it is not itself a theory or a hypothesis.
Related QuestionsThere's no mention of intelligent design there. Why is that?
Kitzmiller v. Dover: Day 18, AM: Alan Bonsell (continued)Well, basically what I said and what the teachers said I didn't really have a problem with because it mentions other theories of evolution, which ID is another theory. Well, the way I look at it, gaps and problems are sort of two different things. Gaps could be okay, we have evidence for A and we have evidence for C, but we're missing B to connect the two together. So there are the gaps.
Related QuestionsSir, is intelligent design falsifiable?
Kitzmiller v. Dover: Day 8, PM: Brian AltersI've heard of some that have discussed it to point out that it's not science, to use it as a foil for the scientific method, scientific processes.
Related QuestionsIs Intelligent Design a form of creationism?
Introduction to the TalkDesign.org Site | TalkDesignThe answer to this question depends partly on what one means by "creationism". At one end of the spectrum, creationism can be simply the belief that the Universe was created by God, a belief which is probably shared by all monotheists. At the other end, it can be Young Earth Creationism, the belief that the Genesis account of creation is literally true and that the scientific evidence supports this belief.
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Introduction to the TalkDesign.org Site | TalkDesignWe argue that Intelligent Design is a pseudoscience, like Young Earth Creationism, astrology, Atlantis, and the many other belief systems parading as science which fill the mass media. By pseudoscience, we mean a belief system which is claimed to be based on science, but which is actually based on arguments that are not only flawed, but are so egregiously bad that they do not stand up to any serious open-minded examination.
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