Abandon Quote by Michael Shermer

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

The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so…

— George Lucas

The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of…

— William A. Dembski

Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that…

— William A. Dembski

Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended on an…

— Bruce Alberts

There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an…

— William A. Dembski

Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.

— William A. Dembski

“Intelligent design offers few answers. For instance, when and how did a designing intelligence intervene in life’s history? By creating the first DNA? The…

— Scientific American Editors

I think as designers we realize design is a signal of intention, but it also has to occur within a world and we have…

— William McDonough