Debate Quote by Phillip E. Johnson

What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

— George Gilder

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

— Michael Shermer

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

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

It's high time to rescue "intelligent design" from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either biology or…

— Deepak Chopra

“Science is a philosophy of discovery. 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

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

“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

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.…

— Michael Dowd

Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.

— John Marburger

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