In a commentary published Monday 11 September, Leshner said that efforts by
intelligent design advocates to promote «critical analysis» of evolution and other controversial science issues put Ohio's economy and the future of its children at risk.
Would you publicly debate
an intelligent design advocate?
In the spirit of fairness, I had a copy of Spore sent to Michael Behe,
an intelligent design advocate based at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
All of which means that story number 1, about
intelligent design advocate Ben Stein giving the commencement address at the University of Vermont, is TOTALL....
Not exact matches
Scientists who do not dismiss
intelligent design as a possibility or who blatantly
advocate it through their research are silenced, fired, and ostracized from the academy.
When one fires a» scientist» who
advocates intelligent design from a job involving scientific theories and methodology, this is not discrimination.
The case has generated interest among
advocates of
intelligent design.
Too many
advocates of
intelligent design zealously single - minded.
Advocates of
intelligent design claim that anyone can be led to belief in an
intelligent designer by a scientific study of nature.
On his principles,
advocates of
intelligent design have reversed the proper order of knowing.
Not all
advocates of
intelligent design read the Bible this way, but some clearly do.
On the other hand, Calvin offers what is probably a better account of the role actually played by
intelligent design among its
advocates.
But the
advocates of
intelligent design can not escape theology so easily.
But in fact,
intelligent design is mainly
advocated in America by conservative Christians, who regard the account of creation in the opening chapters of Genesis as a scientific description of the origin of the world.
I only ask that this counsel apply just as much to contemporary
advocates of Darwinian theory as it does to proponents of
intelligent design.
But for me the greatest difference between Thomas Aquinas» Cosmological Argument and any and all arguments from
design comes from what all the
advocates of
design admit: that the candidate for the
Intelligent Designer could be, at least theoretically, just about any supra «human
intelligent manipulator of complex artifacts, from outer «space aliens to Al Gore's Mama Gaia.
'' «there are no peer reviewed articles by anyone
advocating for
intelligent design supported by pertinent experiments or calculations which provide detailed rigorous accounts of how
intelligent design of any biological system occurred»» Michael Behe.
As for
advocates of «
intelligent design» — the media - savvy group that has brought its ideas to school boards and courtrooms — they aren't even worth a mention by AiG, which makes abundant references to Darwin himself at the museum in the course of doling out ammunition with which to attack him.
You have strong words for the
intelligent design folks, for example, describing one claim by their
advocate Michael Behe (that an
intelligent designer «made the first cell, already containing all of the irreducibly complex biochemical systems») as «utter nonsense.»
Instead, the institute
advocates «teaching the controversy» — a legally safer approach, in which schools present Darwinism as controversial without endorsing
intelligent design.
Here is to all the people who have, do, and will
advocate for clean water around the world — from river restoration to ocean conservation, from providing fresh water for all to
designing intelligent solutions for future water supplies.