Intelligent Design and Its Critics

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The Case of the Missing Book: Setting the Record Straight on William Dembski, the Templeton Foundation, and Intelligent Design
ByEditor March 6, 2007March 22, 2018

A February 27, 2007 posting on Wikipedia by Joseph C. Campana with ResearchID.org suggests that “Media Misreports Intelligent Design Research and the John Templeton Foundation”.1 Campana argues that contrary to recent press statements by Charles Harper, the Templeton Foundation in fact does or at least once did supported Intelligent Design Theory (ID). William Dembski has…

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Beyond Intelligent Design: The Social and Historical Contexts
ByEditor June 5, 2006March 22, 2018

A panel of lectures moderated by Edward Davis.

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Teaching the History of Nature
ByEditor June 5, 2006March 22, 2018

A keynote talk by Ursula Goodenough at the 2006 “Beyond Intelligent Design” symposium with responses by George Ellis, Dennis Cheek, Melchor Sánchez de Toca Alameda, and Robert Pollack, moderated by William Grassie.

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Beyond Intelligent Design: Philosophy
ByEditor June 4, 2006March 22, 2018

A panel discussion at the 2006 Metanexus symposium “Beyond Intelligent Design” featuring Nobert Samuelson, Roy Clouzer, and Rafael Pascual discussing the philosophical issues. Moderator by Ronald Cole-Turner.

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Beyond Intelligent Design: The Sciences
ByEditor June 4, 2006March 22, 2018

A panel discussion with Stephen Barr, Colin Purrington, and Jeff Schloss, moderated by Peter Dodson, at the 2006 Metanexus symposium “Beyond Intelligent Design.”

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Intelligent Design: From Whence and Why
ByEditor June 4, 2006March 22, 2018

The first section of this presentation analyses the issues in the ongoing controversy over evolution and Intelligent Design. Subsequent sections describe some recent ideas in evolutionary theory and in theological reflection (including the contributions of several speakers at this conference) which offer alternatives to the “conflict of science and religion” presented in the media coverage…

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Vedic Creationism in America, by Meera Nanda
ByEditor April 7, 2006March 22, 2018

Metanexus Bios. 1,862 Words. ﾓDarwin is under attack in America yet again. Exactly eighty years since the Scopes ﾓmonkey trial,ﾔ the teaching of Darwinﾒs theory of evolution is facing legal challenges in many parts of the country. A major trial pitting creationism against Darwin is under way in Dover, Pennsylvania, while the fate of another…

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Varieties of Design Arguments
ByEditor April 6, 2006March 22, 2018

Metanexus Sophia. 12,302 Words. “The purpose of this paper is to examine some specifically philosophical questions about the current debate in selected North American public schools about including what is commonly called “intelligent design” (ID) as part of the schools’ official science curriculum. The issues I will raise focus around two broad questions: First, what…

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Evolution and Intelligent Design
ByEditor December 24, 2005March 22, 2018

1. Introduction Intelligent Design is a successor to creationism, but more subtle and more acceptable of the evolution theory. It arose from biochemist Michael Behe’s book Darwin’s Black Box,1 and was seconded, mainly on statistical grounds, by William Dembski.2 They claim that certain complex systems, like the immune system, bloodclotting, visual mechanism and bacterial…

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Beyond Intelligent Design
ByEditor May 5, 2005March 22, 2018

The core of the evolution wars is whether a scientific understanding of biology allows room for religious and philosophical commitments to purpose in human life, purposes that somehow also must connect to the unfolding history of the universe.

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