“people believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Here’s someone who says there’s no such thing, it’s all intelligent design. How sure am I of my own views? Don’t take… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Mere lack of evidence, of course, is no reason to denounce a theory. Look at intelligent design. The fact that it is… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
It's high time to rescue "intelligent design" from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I find the concept of intelligent design rather dishonest. One should openly stand up for the existence of Allah, should sincerely stand… — Harun Yahya 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
People who espouse Intelligent Design believe nature is so complex as to require an intelligent designer-God. Similarly, liberals believe the economy is… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“…young people unskilled in mathematics, addled by credit cards, and weaned on so-called intelligent design...will somehow retool American science for another generation… — Kevin Phillips Copy Share Image
"Methodological naturalism" and "metaphysical naturalism" are terms that often surface in the continuing battle between evolutionary biology and creationism/intelligent design. The methodological… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
“The denier that ID [intelligent design] is science faces the following dilemma. Either he admits that the intervention of such a designer… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“Intelligent design theorists have learned a few lessons from the failures of their predecessors and have devised a more sophisticated strategy to… — Robert T. Pennock Copy Share Image
“To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand million… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Evolution as described by Charles Darwin is an scientific theory, abundantly reconfirmed, explaining physical phenomena by physical causes. Intelligent Design is a… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Thus, in its relation to Christianity, intelligent design should be viewed as a ground-clearing operation that gets rid of the intellectual rubbish… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
John McCain, who once called Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson 'forces of evil', has now come out for teaching intelligent design. That… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“The secret of DNA's success is that it carries information like that of a computer program, but far more advanced. Since experience… — Jonathan Wells Copy Share Image
Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
“Teaching students the evidence for and against Darwinism is not the same as teaching intelligent design. The U.S. Congress has officially endorsed… — Jonathan Wells Copy Share Image
Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed.… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The Intelligent Design movement starts with the recognition that "In the beginning was the Word," and "In the beginning God created." Establishing… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
There's no obvious reason to assume that the very same rare properties that allow for our existence would also provide the best… — Guillermo Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“In short, human intelligent design (pun intended) should play a major role in shaping the future of our interactions with each other,… — Luciano Floridi Copy Share Image
The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Absolutists frighten me. During all the endless discussions on my blog about evolution, intelligent design, God, and the afterworld, numbering altogether thousands… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
When we started out and we were talking about the origins of the universe and the physical constants, I provided what I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past. To be tagged… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting… — George Will Copy Share Image
“Intelligent design is one way Catholics approach creation from a standpoint that accommodates both faith and reason (religion and science). Are not… — John Trigilio Copy Share Image