Intelligent Design
"[But] intelligent design is not science, it has no testable hypotheses, no proposed methodologies, no research data.
It is derived from its own claims. Its philosophical arguments have been rejected by the science community."
--Jack Krebs, vice president of Kansas Citizens for Science
In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended on an insistence that these gaps be filled by natural explanations, logically derived from confirmable evidence. Because "intelligent design" theories are based on supernatural explanations, they can have nothing to do with science.
--Bruce Alberts President National Academy of SciencesThe creationists' fondness for "gaps" in the fossil record is a metaphor for their love of gaps in knowledge generally. Gaps, by default, are filled by God. You don't know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don't understand how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesis a bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don't go to work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God. Dear scientist, don't work on your mysteries. Bring us your mysteries for we can use them. Don't squander precious ignorance by researching it away. Ignorance is God's gift to Kansas.
--Richard Dawkins, FRS. Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, at Oxford University. Taken from his essay Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant
Why would an omnipotent, omnipresent, all-knowing God create the human shin bone at the level of a tow bar?
--Ian Plimer, Professor of Mining Geology, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of AdelaideIt now seems unlikely that a theory will ever emerge which could completely replace Darwin's theory of evolution. But should that happen, scientists would be committed to investigating it fully. Intelligent design is emphatically not that theory, as it has systematically failed to stand up to any scrutiny. But, like a turd in the
u-bend, it just won't go away.
--Adam Rutherford, The Guardian
Funky Winkerbean (off site)
Short-circuiting science,
short-changing our kids
Kenneth R. Miller, Professor of Biology, Brown University,
Providence, R.I.
Design on the Defensive (off site)
Kenneth R. Miller
Finding Darwin's God: The New Battle Over
Evolution
(off
site)
Intelligent Design
Humans, Cockroaches, and the Laws of Physics (off site)
Victor J Stenger
God, the Universe
and Evolution: A Conversation with a Creationist.
Kevin L. O'Brien
Intelligent Design: Constant Tampering by the
Designer
(off
site)
Joe Meert
Life's Grand Design
(off site)
Kenneth R. Miller
The
Meaning of Life to an Armadillo
"Gandalf"
Comments
on W.A. Dembski's Press Release of 2002/01/08
(off
site)
Wesley R. Elsberry
Is
the Complement System Irreducibly Complex?
(off
site)
Mike Coon
Behe's Criticism of Evolution
in Biochemistry Textbooks (off site)
Laurence A. Moran
The
Evolution of Improved Fitness
by random mutation plus selection (off site)
Edward E. Max, M.D., Ph.D.
Michael Behe's New Mexico Blitz... (off site)
The Truth about the
"SantorumAmendment" Language on Evolution
(off site)
Kenneth R. Miller
A
reducibly complex mousetrap (off site)
John McDonald
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Intelligent
Design Bibliography Misleading |
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National Center for Science Education |
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Who will be Steve #1000? |
Steve Darwin is Steve #1000
NCSE, February 14th, 2009
"It was
nip and tuck, but when the dust settled, Dr. Steve Darwin was named the
1000th Steve in NCSE's Project Steve."
The C-Files: William Dembski (off site)
Intelligent Design - The Prostate (off site)
Intelligent Design?
(off site)
A special report reprinted from Natural History magazine
Not the whole truth
(off site)
"As a threat to Darwinism, it's [the film Icons of
Evolution] reminiscent of a woodpecker trying to bring down a sequoia."
Roger Downey
Evidence for Jury-Rigged Design in Nature (off site)
E. Coli at the No Free Lunchroom
(off
site)
Howard J. Van Till
Intelligent
Design ... Is It Science?
Here's what some IDers say... (off site)
New Mexicans for Science and Reason
"The Quixotic Message", or "No Free Hunch" (off site)
Metaphors on Trial
or, How did the Groundhog Cross the Road?
(off site)
John Pieret
The C-Files: THE SMOKING GUN - "Intelligent Design" IS Creationism! (off site)
Darwin in Mind: Intelligent Design Meets Artificial
Intelligence
(off site)
Taner Edis
Talkdesign.org (off site)
Intelligent Design? When the Shark
Bites with His Teeth, Dear,
Remember That it's all for the Best
(off site)
Nature's Design an Indication of Intelligent Design? I Think Not! (off site)
Robert Weitzel: Theory puts a serpent in the garden of education (off site)
A Critique of
Phillip E. Johnson's "How Can We Tell Science From Religion?"
Roland Watts
The Advantage of theft over toil: the design inference and arguing from ignorance (off site)
Finally, a Response on Intelligent Design Polling (off site)
The Wedge at Work: How Intelligent Design Creationism Is
Wedging Its
Way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream
(off site)
Barbara Forrest, Ph.D.
Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design
(off site)
Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross
Intelligent Design: Creationism's Trojan Horse
(off site)
A Conversation With Barbara Forrest
New Work Documents the Evolution of
Irreducibly Complex Structures
(off site)
Dave Thomas
Critical analysis ... of intelligent design
(off site)
Nick Matzke
Leaders and Followers in the Intelligent-Design
Movement
(off site)
Jason Rosenhouse
Jason's
experiences at an Intelligent-Design conference
Kansas Evolves Back (off site)
Master Planned
(off site)
H. Allen Orr
Why intelligent design isn't
Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant
(off site)
Richard Dawkins, May
21 2005
Behe's meaningless complexity (off site)
Review of The
Privileged Planet
(off site)
William H. Jefferys, The University of Texas
at Austin
DARWIN ON TRIAL: A Review
(off site)
Eugenie C. Scott
The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the
Truth?
(off site)
Brian Spitzer
"Why Phillip Johnson's Darwin on Trial and the "Intelligent Design"
movement
are neither science—nor Christian"
The
"Intelligent Design" Hoax
(off site)
William J. Bennetta
Designer Science At a High Price
Lionel Tiger
"Barbara Forrest and Paul Gross recently have, in response to the anti-evolution program, produced a work, 'Creationism's Trojan Horse'... What Ms Forrest and Mr Gross describe as 'The Wedge' of the Dembski adventure is nothing less than a lavishly funded program to embargo a lot of books because they challenge the assertions in one book, the Bible. This is just silly."
And Now a Word From the Astronomers....
(off site)
Carl Zimmer
"... an open letter to President Bush just released
[August 5 2005] by the American Astronomical Society's
president, Prof. Robert Kirschner..."
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Waterloo In Dover: The Kitzmiller v. DASD Case
(off site)
The Panda's Thumb
Move over Jon Stewart: The Discovery Institute
issues own "fake news"
(off site)
The Panda's Thumb
The Kitzmiller Decision
(off site)
Dawkins, Dennett, Kurtz, Jones, Ridley, Forrest
The Evolution of Creationism
(off site)
Victor J. Stenger
Creationism Is Evolving.... It Has No Choice
(off site)
Max Borders
Intelligent Design in Australia
Correspondence from concerned Australians
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (off site)
" ...what our scientist does not realize is that every time he makes a measurement, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is there changing the results with His Noodly Appendage."
An intelligent design of the times (off site)
"Juliette Hughes examines the boundaries between religion and science"The Brontosaurus (off site)
Monty Python's flying creationism.
William Saletan
Phoney Theory, False Conflict (off site)
""Intelligent Design' Foolishly Pits Evolution
Against Faith"
Charles Krauthammer
"Intelligent Design" is Not About Science, It's
About Putting God Into the Classroom (off site)
Andrew Bard Schmookler
Shaking the Foundation of Faith (off site)
Scott M. Liell
Intelligent Design (off site)
The Skeptic's Dictionary
Dover, Darwin, and Design: One Chimp's Opinion
(off site)
Myriam Miedzian
"Intelligent design" equal to giving up
Joe Meert
Eloquent Dover Plaintiff's Trial Summation
(off site)
Mike the mad biologist
Bombardier Beetles and the Argument of Design
(off site)
Mark Isaak
Life on Mars? The real lesson from Lowell
(off site)
The Panda's Thumb
Evolution Of Irreducible Complexity Explained (off site)
Intelligent Judging - Evolution in the Classroom and the Courtroom (off site)
George J. Annas, J.D., M.P.H.
"Religious arguments have permeated debates on the role of the law in medical practice at the beginning and the end of life. But nowhere has religion played so prominent a role as in the century-old quest to banish or marginalize the teaching of evolution in science classes."
Intelligent Design and Unintelligent People
(off site)
"If there's no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?"
Intelligent Design (off site)
A special report reprinted from
Natural History magazine
Irriducable
Complexity as an Evolutionary Prediction
(off site)
Chris Ho-Stuart
Ministers to ban creationist teaching aids in science lessons
(off site)
James Randerson, Guardian science correspondent
Thursday December 7, 2006
The Intelligent Design Stump (off site)
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Intelligent Design: The New Polytheism
(off site)
Joe Meert
The Two Faces of Dr. Ross
(off site)
Joe Meert
Dembski and the ID folk are confused
(off site)
Joe Meert
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Not in our classrooms: Why Intelligent
Design is wrong for our schools |
Irreducible Complexity as an Evolutionary
Prediction (off site)
Talk Origins Post of the Month: September 2006
Chris Ho-Stuart
The Discovery Institute Quote Mines Judge Jones (off site)
John Pieret
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The evolution of creationism (off site)
After their notorious legal defeat, intelligent design proponents are resurfacing with insidious new assaults on science.
The Edge of Creationism (off site)
A review of Michael Behe's
The Edge of Evolution by Nick Matzke
The testimony of Kevin Padian
in Kitzmiller v. Dover (off site)
Edited by Nick Matzke, National
Center for Science Education
The Mullerian Two-Step: Add a
part, make it necessary (off site)
... or, Why Behe's "Irreducible Complexity" is silly
Douglas Theobald, Ph.D.
Devoid of intelligence (off site)
Adam Rutherford, from his weblog in The Guardian
April 15, 2008
"It now seems unlikely that a theory will ever emerge which could completely replace Darwin's theory of evolution. But should that happen, scientists would be committed to investigating it fully. Intelligent design is emphatically not that theory, as it has systematically failed to stand up to any scrutiny. But, like a turd in the u-bend, it just won't go away."Expelled exposed (off site)
National Center for Science EducationExpelled! (off site)
Pz Myers' "Pharyngula"Expelled: Now with added anti-Semitism (off site)
John Lynch's "Stranger Fruit"Two (Opposable) Thumbs Down: Skip Ben Stein's Movie And Check Out 'Expelled: Exposed' Instead (off site)
Rob Boston, Americans United for Church and StateExpelled Exposed, Part 1: Ben Stein's Blunder (off site)
Expelled Exposed, Part 2: The Richard Sternberg Affair (off site)
eSKEPTIC, the email newsletter of the Skeptics SocietyExpelled flunks the test (off site)
National Center for Science Education
Florida: Open Letter on Learning from History (off site)
The Austringer, The Weblog of Wesley R. ElsberryAnd the award for most hysterical antievolutionist nonsense of the week goes to.… (off site)
From Troy Britain's weblog Playing Chess with Pigeons, 28 April 2008Ben Stein Is an IDiot (off site)
The Discovery Institute, the LA Family Forum, and the "LA Science Education Act" (off site)
"The Discovery Institute has teamed up with the LA Family Forum, the Louisiana affiliate of Focus on the Family, to promote a stealth creationism bill in the guise of 'academic freedom' legislation."
Barbara Forrest, 26 June 2008Origin of the specious (off site)
AC Grayling
"It is sometimes hard to know whether books that strike one as silly and irresponsible, like Dissent over Descent, the latest book from Steve Fuller, are the product of a desire to strike a pose and appear outrageous (the John Gray syndrome), or really do represent that cancer of the contemporary intellect, post-modernism."Probability, Statistics, Evolution, and Intelligent Design (off Site)
Peter Olofsson
Taken to School: An Interview with the Honorable Judge John E. Jones, III (off site)
Jane Gitschier, December 5, 2008
"Cdesign Proponentsists"
25 September 2008
"For years, 'intelligent design' (ID) proponents denied that ID is just a new label for creationism. However, it is now well-known that the first intelligent design 'textbook', Of Pandas and People, is just a revised version of a classic 'two-model' creationism vs. evolution book named Creation Biology."The two faces of intelligent design creationism (off site)
From Playing Chess with Pigeons
"Over at Uncommen Descent they are taking advantage of the brouhaha over the New York Post's 'gunned-down chimp' cartoon (which many have taken as a racist slur against President Obama) to take their own pot-shots at evolution and in the process they have served up another example of the two faces of intelligent design."