Intelligent Design Quotes
55 Intelligent Design quotes by 31 unique authors
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Anytime that knowledge and a version of the truth are considered to be absolute, fundamentalism is the result, whether the arena is Christianity, Islam, Judaism,…
— Carlton Pearson
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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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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 sky and you're…
— Stephen King
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The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical reality. Indeed, intelligent…
— William A. Dembski
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Thus, in its relation to Christianity, intelligent design should be viewed as a ground-clearing operation that gets rid of the intellectual rubbish that for generations…
— William A. Dembski
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I think people who believe that life emerged naturalistically need to have a great deal more faith than people who reasonably infer that there's an…
— Lee Strobel
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Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.
— Peter Thiel
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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.
— James Lileks
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Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really…
— Burt Rutan
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Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.
— Lee Strobel
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Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.
— William A. Dembski
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Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence…
— William A. Dembski
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Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians of…
— William A. Dembski
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There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually…
— William A. Dembski
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Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the…
— Francis Collins
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Moreover, the eye contains a big flaw: the retina is inside out. Why would an almighty designer do such a thing? No intelligent designer, ..…
— Daniel Dennett
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I say the Intelligent Design-evolution debate misses the point. It trivializes God and it trivializes science. The universe is like the hand of God. The…
— Michael Dowd
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How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?
— Kinky Friedman
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
— Gary Hamel
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
— Isaac Newton
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The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected…
— William A. Dembski
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The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were designed by an…
— Michael Behe
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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. Confused by the…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life-yet more jargon for 'God…
— Michael Shermer
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Most scientists who are religious look for God in what science does understand and has explained. So the way in which my view is different…
— Kenneth R. Miller
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