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  • The End of Intelligent Design?

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    First Things: The End of Intelligent Design?  It is time to take stock: What has the intelligent design movement achieved? As science, nothing. The goal of science is to increase our understanding of the natural world, and there is not a single phenomenon that we understand better today or are likely to understand better in…

  • Intelligent Design on Trial

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    Last month I linked a review by John Armstrong of a Nova documentary on the Dover School Board case concerning intelligent design called Intelligent Design on Trial, filmed in 2007. I finally had a chance to watch all two hours of the documentary (in 12 segments), and I agree with John; it is really quite…

  • Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial

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    John H. Armstrong: Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial No subject stirs up more fear and opposition among a lot of conservative and fundamentalist Christians than science and faith. And nothing stirred up passions, at least in recent years, quite like the famous Dover (PA) court case regarding the school board's mandate to teach Intelligent…

  • Man who fought for Pluto writes about God

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    From the Ventura County Star: Man who fought for Pluto writes about God (HT: Presbyweb) Astronomer feels 'intelligent design' isn't creator's plan. Too bad about Pluto — the planet, not the Disney dog — and that humiliating descent to mere "dwarf planet" status in our solar system. Don't blame Harvard University's Owen Gingerich. He led…

  • Reflections on Intelligent Design

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    The most recent edition of the Presbyterian Outlook has articles focused on Intelligent Design. I found Mark Achtemeier's article Reflections on Intelligent Design interesting. Even a casual glimpse at current headlines leaves little doubt that the Intelligent Design debate has become yet another battleground in the culture wars, with culturally-aggressive fundamentalists and equally-militant secularists well…

  • The Mormon Science and Religion Controversy

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    The evolution vs. intelligent design controversy is in the news almost daily now. But this is not the only controversy between science and religion. Presbyweb had a very interesting story from the LA Times linked yesterday called Bedrock of a Faith Is Jolted. The Mormons, back to Joseph Smith, have always held that American Indians…

  • Find a Place for Intelligent Design in Public Schools

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    Find a Place for Intelligent Design in Public Schools is an opinion piece at Real Clear Politics by Mark Davis. I like what he has to say. This is driving the rest of us nuts. There are millions of Americans of faith who are willing to have evolution taught as what it is – a…

  • Orthodoxy of a Liberal Sort

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    I am not inclined to view intelligent design as a scientific theory. Nevertheless, I think the judge in the recent Dover case was breathtakingly prejudiced and an enemy of open debate in education. Law professor Paul Campos wrote a great opinion piece today called Orthodoxy of a Liberal Sort. His opening was: A sure sign…

  • Idea not Based on Religion

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    Idea not Based on Religion is an editorial in USA Today. The closing paragraph says, "Efforts to mandate intelligent design are misguided, but efforts to shut down discussion of a scientific idea through harassment and judicial decrees hurt democratic pluralism. The more Darwinists resort to censorship and persecution, the clearer it will become that they…

  • Belief in the Balance

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    Denis Hancock of the Reformed-Angler sent me a link to Belief in the Balance, an article in the Columbia Missouri Tribune. I thought the article made some helpful distinctions. I especially like this quote: "It's not that science refutes religion," Miller said. "It's that science looks for natural answers to questions, and if you say, 'Well,…