Intelligent design Quote by Scientific American Editors

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

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

— John Marburger

Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent…

— Michael Shermer

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

— Kenneth R. Miller

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

“Living organisms were not independently created, but have descended and diversified over time from common ancestors. And thus, no other biological theory so elegantly…

— Tommy Rodriguez

I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for ‘[intelligent] design.’ If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't working very well!

— Irven DeVore

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

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

It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand.

— Barry W. Lynn

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

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