intelligent thinkers movement
This standard story is being upended by lawyers, scientists, and philosophers who claim that Darwinism fails the tests of good science. [1]
This standard story is being upended by lawyers, scientists and philosophers who claim that Darwinism fails the tests of good science. [2]
One oft-repeated story is that all challenges to Darwinism are merely religiously motivated and hopelessly unscientific. [1]
For design to be a fruitful scientific concept, scientists have to be sure they can reliably determine whether something is designed. [...] With the Intelligent Design movement this dissent has now become focused, promising to overturn the cultural dominance of Darwinism much as the freedom movements in eastern Europe overturned the political dominance of Marxism at the end of the 1980s. [3]
He is also a senior fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture in Seattle as well as the executive director of the International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design. [4]
The argument of ‘intelligent design’ (ID) has a long history going back to the ancient Greeks and Romans.1 It was persuasively articulated by William Paley (1743′1805), who put forward the argument of an inferred divine Watchmaker in his book Natural Theology (1802). [5]
It’s this fear of falsely attributing something to design only to have it overturned later that has prevented design from entering science proper. [6]
On philosophical grounds they found Darwinism hopelessly entangled with naturalism, the view that nature is self-sufficient and thus without need of God or any guiding intelligence. [3]
In it you will find fascinating content and stunning photographs that present creation and worldview articles along with relevant cultural topics from different authors. [5]
Douglas Groothuis is Professor of Philosophy at Denver Seminary and the author of On Pascal. [1]
In particular, Darwinism rules out the possibility of God or any guiding intelligence playing a role in life’s origin and development. [3]
The modern concept of intelligent design has been simply formulated as the belief that certain biological lines of evidence (e.g., the ‘irreducible complexity’ of features such as the bacterial flagellum) are evidence for a designer and against blind naturalistic processes. [5]
These thinkers, who are neither theologians nor preachers, make up the Intelligent Design (ID) movement, which is chronicled in this important book written by a professor at Trinity College in Florida. [2]
Far from countering atheism, it actually pushed thinkers into a non-design explanation, hence further into naturalism and atheism. [5]
Sources:
[1] The Constructive Curmudgeon: More support for Intelligent Design
[2] CSC - Think tank group questions Darwinism
[3] The Intelligent Design Movement: Dembski, William A.
[4] The Intelligent Design Movement
[5] AiG’s views on the Intelligent Design Movement
[6] The Intelligent Design Movement