Stewart Davenport conscientiously and insightfully re-creates the world of the nineteenth-century political economists, who taught that the principles of international trade manifested,… — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
“Molecular machines display a key signature or hallmark of design, namely, irreducible complexity. In all irreducibly complex systems in which the cause… — Scott A. Minnich Copy Share Image
As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“...and specimens like this confirmed there had been some kind of divine rule in the universe because no natural selection process was… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
Moreover, the eye contains a big flaw: the retina is inside out. Why would an almighty designer do such a thing? No… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“To understand Darwin's work, you have to distinguish between his theory of descent and his theory of natural selection. THe full name… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
The scientific picture of the world championed since the Enlightenment is not just wrong but massively wrong. Indeed entire fields of inquiry,… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“Even if the intelligent design of some structure has been established, it still is a separate question whether a wise, powerful, and… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - science, philosophy, religion, or… — Michael J. Behe 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
“The problem with ID, of course, is that it leaves open the possibility that the intelligence behind nature may have a moral… — David Klinghoffer Copy Share Image
“Fifth, I think that you [Daniel Dennett] and Richard are absolute disasters in the fight against intelligent design — we are losing… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
“Intelligent Design is fraught with even more difficulties, as it suggests God as one who dips His hand in every now and… — Aaron R. Yilmaz Copy Share Image
“Whenever explaining an event, we must choose from three competing modes of explanation. These are regularity, chance, and design... To attribute an… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
Intelligent Design has been hijacked by a narrow group of creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it didn't originally mean at… — Guy Consolmagno Copy Share Image
“I believe the defenders of intelligent design deserve our gratitude for challenging a scientific world view that owes some of the passion… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
The first point one has to get straight in discussions like this, is that ID is not the opposite of evolution. Rather,… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
If you say, Well, OK, I don't believe in God. There's no evidence of God, then you're missing the stars in the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended… — Bruce Alberts Copy Share Image
My colleague Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, erroneously suggested that I support the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Most scientists who are religious look for God in what science does understand and has explained. So the way in which my… — Kenneth R. Miller 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
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
Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have… — Mohamed ElBaradei 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
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
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 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
![“Fifth, I think that you [Daniel Dennett] and Richard are absolute disasters in the fight against intelligent design — we are losing this battle, not the least of which is the two new supreme court justices who are certainly going to vote to let it into classrooms — what we need is not knee-jerk…” quote by Michael Ruse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d6/michael-ruse-35791_intelligent-design_fifth-i-think-that-you-daniel-dennett-an_1658804.jpg)
