Faith and reason Quote by John Trigilio

There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place in a…

— David Hillis

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…

— William A. Dembski

The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical reality. Indeed,…

— William A. Dembski

“According to Dembski, for example, “scientific creationism has prior religious commitments whereas intelligent design does not.”

— Michael Shermer

Intelligent Design has been hijacked by a narrow group of creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it didn't originally mean at all. It's…

— Guy Consolmagno

Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

— William A. Dembski

Intelligent design cannot explain Darwinian evolution. Darwin's whole point is that variation and change are random and without higher purpose. We cannot imagine that…

— James K. Galbraith

No matter how much proponents of 'intelligent design' try to clothe their views in the apparel of science, it is what it is: religion.…

— Cynthia Tucker

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…

— William A. Dembski

Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet…

— Kenneth R. Miller

“I believe the defenders of intelligent design deserve our gratitude for challenging a scientific world view that owes some of the passion displayed by…

— Thomas Nagel

“['Intelligent Design'] is a theology for control freaks.”

— Simon Conway Morris