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Tinkering with Creation: Intelligent Design 2.0

By Lauri Lebo

…sts claim that inside the dinosaur footprint is the unmistakable mark of a human footprint. Carl Baugh, who runs the Creation Evidence Museum, just outside of Glen Rose, said he has analyzed the prints and can vouch for their validity. It bears noting that Baugh’s past claims have all been thoroughly debunked. Scientists place the age of the Earth at 4.55 billion years, and there is no credible scientific evidence backing up young earth creationis…

Does NIH Head Francis Collins Believe in Intelligent Design?

By Eric Reitan

…ly, there is a big difference between insisting, on the one hand, that our design structure can’t be explained in evolutionary terms and so demands a God, and suggesting, on the other hand, that a specific behavior is so unexpected given our design structure that it gestures towards sources of motivation that transcend what’s built into our design. This, ultimately, seems to be where Collins is going: Theism allows us to see what Welsey did in a d…

Still Trying to Get Creationism into Science Classes

By Lauri Lebo

…t are these “enormous differences”? Here is DI’s definition of intelligent design: Intelligent design is the theory 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. Here’s the thing, even their own definition gives away their sleight of hand. No matter how many times they deny it, intelligent design relies on the supernatural. They can hide i…

Intelligent Design Trial Celebrates Fifth Year Reunion

By Lauri Lebo

…g support in the text of the First Amendment, but also that it is the only rule that truly makes sense for us as Americans. What good would come from permitting government to sneak a little (or a lot of) religion in here and there? As Justice O’Connor has said: “Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: Why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has serv…

Single Greatest Idea Ever: On the 150th Anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species

By Lauri Lebo

…will lead. Out of that grew intelligent design: the idea that if it looks designed, it is designed. That is until intelligent design was exposed in Dover as a vacuous concept masquerading as scientific theory. Now, it seems like we’re back to celebrating ignorance. “I Think.” The new creationist/intelligent design strategy has been to pressure states and school districts to water down the teaching of evolution until it’s virtually meaningless, an…

Religion vs. Science: America’s Perilous Fight

By Edward J. Larson

…nks to Darwin, it is no longer true to say that nothing that we know looks designed unless it is designed,” Dawkins notes in his recent bestseller, The God Delusion. “Evolution by natural selection produces an excellent simulation of design.” By banishing the argument for design, Dawkins claims: “Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.” Renowned Harvard naturalist E.O. Wilson makes similar assertions. “The inexorable gro…

Texas Board of Education to Review Intelligent Design-Promoting Materials for Science Classes

By Lauri Lebo

…Board President Don McLeroy said at the time, “Creationism and intelligent design don’t belong in our science classes. Anything taught in science has to have consensus in the science community—and intelligent design does not.” Now publishers and vendors have submitted their proposed on-line material for review. And guess what? A joint review by the National Center for Science Education and the Texas Freedom Network has turned up a submission that…

Creationism 3.0: Meet Intelligent Design’s Huckster

By Michael Schulson

…ased on “strictly material processes” will no longer suffice. Enter the designer. Meyer, eager to keep the tone of a scientific inquiry, phrases his case for the designer using the same methodological tool that’s central to evolutionary biology: Uniformitarianism. Simpler than the eight-syllable name suggests, the idea is that what goes on in the world today must also have been happening in the past. Therefore, we can look at present patterns o…

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Re: Creationist Tactics Pre-Dating the Exposure of ID as a Fraud

By Lauri Lebo

…nist tactics. West objects to this paragraph: As always, since intelligent design was ruled unconstitutional in Kitzmiller v. Dover, the introduced bills rely on such creationist code words as “teaching the controversy,” “academic freedom,” or “critical analysis.” His argument is that the Discovery Institute was promoting “critical analysis” long before intelligent design was exposed as nothing but revamped creationism. (One of the most problemati…

Can Christians Lie? How Conservative Evangelical Bible Interpretation Has Shaped ‘Truth’

By Christopher Douglas

…rs merely swapped out words like “creation” and “creator” for “intelligent design” and “designer”—also appears designed to deceive. The problem of expertise Answering the question “Can Christians Lie?” is complex partly because it’s entangled with the human mental processes of harmonization, self-deception and sincerity. These are difficult questions that perhaps only literary fiction, with its power to explore interior worlds, can properly addres…