Intelligent Design Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Intelligent, Design, Effort

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• Stewart Davenport conscientiously and insightfully re-creates the world of the nineteenth-century political economists, who taught that the principles of international trade manifested, like the laws of biology and physics, the intelligent design of a Divine Creator.

  Daniel Walker Howe

  Intelligent, Law, Design

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• Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

  George Gilder

  Intelligent, Design, Doe

  "The Evolution of George Gilder". Interview with Joseph P. Kahn, archive.boston.com. July 27, 2005.

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• Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teaching, Intelligent, Class

  "Kurt Vonnegut Judges Modern Society". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 23, 2006.

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• Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design. But at the same time, there's a lot of things in life where you say to yourself, well, if this is God's plan, it's very peculiar. And you have to wonder about that guy's personality, the big guy's personality.

  Stephen King

  Intelligent, Things In Life, Design

  "Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 31, 2014.

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• People who espouse Intelligent Design believe nature is so complex as to require an intelligent designer-God. Similarly, liberals believe the economy is so complex as to require an intelligent designer-government.

  Michael Shermer

  Believe, Intelligent, Government

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• We have concluded that it is not [science], and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.

  Jon Jones

  Religious, Intelligent, Design

  "Judge rules against 'intelligent design' in science class" by Delia Gallagher, Phil Hirschkorn, www.cnn.com. December 23, 2005.

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• If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God (or the Intelligent Designer) is simply immune to the normal demands of scientific explanation. To do so would be to shoot yourself in the foot. You cannot have it both ways. Either ID belongs in the science classroom, in which case it must submit to the discipline required of a scientific hypothesis. Or it does not, in which case, get it out of the science classroom and send it back to church, where it belongs.

  Richard Dawkins

  Intelligent, Feet, Discipline

  "One side can be wrong" by Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne, www.theguardian.com. September 01, 2005.

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• The followers of intelligent design should openly and clearly declare the existence of Allah as the Creator.

  Harun Yahya

  Intelligent, Design, Followers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I find the concept of intelligent design rather dishonest. One should openly stand up for the existence of Allah, should sincerely stand up for religion, for Islam. Or, if one is a Christian, one should honestly stand up for Christianity.

  Harun Yahya

  Christian, Intelligent, Design

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• "Methodological naturalism" and "metaphysical naturalism" are terms that often surface in the continuing battle between evolutionary biology and creationism/intelligent design. The methodological thesis says that scientific theories shouldn't postulate supernatural entities; the metaphysical thesis says that no such entities exist. In this debate, God is the supernatural entity at issue; the question isn't whether science gets to talk about mathematical entities if Platonism is correct.

  Elliott Sober

  Intelligent, Issues, Design

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• First understand infinity then you will understand God and how evolution is intelligent design.

  E. Lee Spence

  Intelligent, Design, Firsts

  "An Interview with Dr. E. Lee Spence" by Aaron Harding, Journal of the Sea Research Society, Volume 5, #3, p. 24,

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• 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 of all stripes can unite.

  William A. Dembski

  Christian, Intelligent, Design

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• Anytime that knowledge and a version of the truth are considered to be absolute, fundamentalism is the result, whether the arena is Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or any other religious faith, as well as atheism, conservative or liberal political views, even evolution or intelligent design. Anytime our minds are closed and there is no room for dissent, we are on a slippery slope towards stagnation.

  Carlton Pearson

  Religious, Intelligent, Views

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• 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

  Intelligent, Design, Doe

  "The evolution of George Gilder". Interview with Joseph P. Kahn, www.boston.com. July 27, 2005.

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• James Russell offers a timely and compelling blueprint for a realistic transformation of America's energy consumption by refusing to fall victim to conventional thinking. Accessible?pragmatic even?Russell's proposals speak to goals on the immediate horizon and underscore the role that intelligent design can play now in America. On a longer horizon, his analysis points to a range of issues about land use, transportation, and coordination of public and private investments to which the design professions have an enormous contribution to make. Here design and policy find common ground.

  Barry Bergdoll

  Fall, Thinking, Intelligent

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• As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce.

  Michael Shermer

  Science, Intelligent, History

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• It will not be possible to rule out the supposition that the process of evolution may be guided by an intelligent design.

  F. C. S. Schiller

  Intelligent, Design, May

  "Humanism: Philosophical Essays". Book by F. C. S. Schiller, June 1903.

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• Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. There were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don't try that again.

  Burt Rutan

  Airplane, Intelligent, Design

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

  Cynthia Tucker

  Intelligent, Views, Design

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• The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet - a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's science curriculum.

  George Will

  School, Intelligent, Design

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• Absolutists frighten me. During all the endless discussions on my blog about evolution, intelligent design, God, and the afterworld, numbering altogether thousands of comments, I have never named my beliefs, although readers have freely informed me that I am an atheist, and agnostic, or at the very least a secular humanist - which I am.

  Roger Ebert

  Atheist, Intelligent, Design

  "Life Itself : A Memoir". Book by Roger Ebert, 2011.

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• The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Intelligent, Alternatives

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

  William A. Dembski

  Intelligent, Feet, Design

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• Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design is really a science, then the burden is on its scientists to discover the mechanisms used by the Intelligent Designer. (80)

  Michael Shermer

  Intelligent, Design, Understanding

  Michael Shermer (2007). “Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design”, p.80, Macmillan

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