People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“Alternatively, anyone who favors Intelligent Design in lieu of evolution might pause to wonder why God devoted so much of His intelligence… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
We have concluded that it is not [science], and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents. — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy. — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe. — James Lileks Copy Share Image
What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content. — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory. — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Deep down, creationists realize they will never win factual arguments with science. This is why they have construed their own science-like universe,… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility.… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Intelligent design cannot explain Darwinian evolution. Darwin's whole point is that variation and change are random and without higher purpose. We cannot… — James K. Galbraith Copy Share Image
“If Darwinists are opposed to mentioning scientific problems with their view, you would think they would be even more opposed to mentioning… — Jonathan Wells Copy Share Image
Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I'm sad. Pressed down by sorrow. I'm angry. Pissed at God, if there is one, and the way things are. I'm scared.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word 'natural.' This word… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
“The free-market economy and globalisation process have brought about, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a sharp and sudden rise… — Yaakov Malkin Copy Share Image
The new advocates of ID [Intelligent Design] ask that their ideas be judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“What brings us anywhere? You take one turn instead of another, you meet one woman instead of another, you have good health… — Ward Just Copy Share Image
“In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the eerie illumination… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
“Even if we have a reliable criterion for detecting design, and even if that criterion tells us that biological systems are designed,… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“Timeline of History Years Before the Present 13.5 billion Matter and energy appear. Beginning of physics. Atoms and molecules appear. Beginning of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“New Rule: You don't have to teach both sides of a debate if one side is a load of crap. President Bush… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Things that look like they were designed, probably were... If intelligence is an operative component of the universe, a science that methodologically… — Donald L. Ewert Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workable alternative to chance that has ever… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“E www ... intelligent design people! They're just buck-toothed, Bible-pushing nincompoops with community-college degrees who're trying to sell a gussied-up creationism to… — Jonathan Wells Copy Share Image
“Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I say the Intelligent Design-evolution debate misses the point. It trivializes God and it trivializes science. The universe is like the hand… — Michael Dowd Copy Share Image
A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content. — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“If a beautiful sunflower is somehow supposed to be evidence of the Christian god, then what is a parasitic worm that eats… — Guy P. Harrison Copy Share Image
I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for ‘[intelligent] design.’ If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't… — Irven DeVore Copy Share Image
By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
![“['Intelligent Design'] is a theology for control freaks.” quote by Simon Conway Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e25/simon-conway-morris-27873_control-freak_intelligent-design-is-a-theology-for-con_3186569.png)
![“We have concluded that it is not [science], and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.” quote by Jon Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a28/jon-jones-1595_creationist_we-have-concluded-that-it-is-not-science_1323053.jpg)
![“This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.” quote by Phillip E. Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33b/phillip-e-johnson-14758_debate_this-the-intelligent-design-movement-isn_2820996.png)
![“The new advocates of ID [Intelligent Design] ask that their ideas be judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how well ID stacks up as a scientific alternative to Darwinism. To gauge how well ID is doing as a platform for scientific research, I logged into the best database of…” quote by Chet Raymo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5c/chet-raymo-34749_alternatives_the-new-advocates-of-id-intelligent-desi_3232484.png)
![“For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are so beautiful and elegant and so apparently purposeful, they could only have been made by an intelligent designer. But [Charles] Darwin provided a simpler…” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aee/richard-dawkins-115_adaptive_for-centuries-the-most-powerful-argument_2563841.jpg)
![“I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for ‘[intelligent] design.’ If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't working very well!” quote by Irven DeVore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/125/irven-devore-243956_creatures_i-personally-cannot-discern-a-shred-of-e_2910311.png)
