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Few have time to sift through the minions of creation - evolution websites, so we hope to save you surf-time by rating links according to the amount of easy-to-access "useful" material on a site. These ratings are NOT our opinion of the validity of the arguments, focus, or conclusions found at a site, but simply our opinion of a site's usefuleness. For your web-surfing enjoyment, here are our 'critically acclaimed' rated creation - evolution links: Pro-Intelligent Design Websites | Ratings: **** = highest * = lowest |
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**** | |  The Access Research Network (ARN) is "a non-profit ... organization dedicated to providing accessible information on science, technology and society." The site contains a gaggle of intelligent design resources including info from well known authors, the Origins and Design Journal, and one of the largest intelligent design internet discussion boards. | **** | | This site houses a very large number of archived articles and other works by William Dembski. The site has numerous articles related to the detection of design and answering objection to intelligent design theory, making it a good place to start if you want to learn about the theory of intelligent design. | **** | | | **** | |  The IDEA Center is a "non-profit organization dedicated to promoting intelligent design theory and fostering good - spirited discussion and a better understanding over the creation - evolution issue among students, educators, churches, and anyone else interested in creation and evolution." The IDEA Center website contains creation-evolution resources, information on IDEA Club student chapters, IDEA Center and origins related news, and a calendar of events. | **** | | This is the premier website that serves as a gateway portal for those interested in learning more about intelligent design. It contains links, science articles, blog headlines, education information, and an intelligent design FAQ. | *** | |  This website has been "designed as a community for undergraduate and high school students interested in Intelligent Design Theory". Its website has pages devoted to scholarly papers written by students, a discussion forum and an archive of interviews with ID proponents. | *** | | | *** | | Johnson is a law professor at UC Berkeley and is considered by many to be the leader of the "Intelligent Design Movement." The site contains online articles and personal information.
| *** | | William Dembski holds a PhD in Math and Philosophy as well as a having a Masters in Divinity and is the author of The Design Inference which Behe says, "constructs the formal logical arguments necessary for rigorous evaluation of design hypotheses." The site has info about his other books and links to many online articles. | *** | | Their science library contains links to articles by a myriad of authors including Behe, Johnson, Berlinksi, and Hugh Ross. Among many other resources, the site contains science articles and an archive of noteworthy quotes about origins. | *** | | This site contains an online book, the Eye Design Book Dr. Curt Deckert. The broad and thorough book contains details on the intelligent design of various eyes including a description of how sight works, a discussion of various eye designs in nature, a discussion of the designer, and an extensive links page. The book has many figures aiding in the explanation of the text. | *** | | Discovering Design has much material also found on ARN.org but serves as a unique gateway to help learn about intelligent design. Be sure to see their What is Intelligent Design? and definitions. | *** | | This blog about the media and evolution says the following: "The misreporting of the evolution issue is one key reason for this new blog. The newsmedia in the U.S. seem to have rediscovered the evolution controversy recently. Unfortunately, much of the news coverage has been sloppy, inaccurate, and in several cases, overtly biased" | *** | | IDtheFuture.com is the home of the Discovery Institute's "ID the Future" podcast. As the premier intelligent design podcast out there, it features regular interviews with leading ID proponents as well as information and updates from science, education, and other dimensions of the ID debate. | ** | | This site's mission is "To promote evidence-based science education with regard to the origin of the universe and of life and its diversity. ... [and] [t]o enhance public awareness of the evidence of intelligent design in the universe and living systems." Check out their IDnet Symposium " Darwin, Design and Democracy: Teaching the Evidence in Science Education" on Saturday July 15th. | ** | | Hosted by Leadership University, this intelligent design page has links to many articles written by well known names in the intelligent design movement, as well as a brief explanation of intelligent design theory. | ** | | This is the website for the Jay Richards and Guillermo Gonzalez' book "The Priveleged Planet." The site has questions and answers, reviews, and links to various relevant articles as well as other resources. | ** | | This blog by science-writer Denyse O'Leary contains her regular and witty updates on the debate over intelligent design. O'Leary is also the author of By Design or By Chance?. |
Anti-Intelligent Design or "neutral" Websites | Ratings: **** = highest * = lowest |
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**** | | This site is a critique of the work of William Dembski, author of The Design Inference and Intelligent Design. Wesley Elsberry, a graduate student at Texas A&M Unviersity, created the site aiming it to be "a scholarly resource where the interested researcher can learn about not only William Dembski's ideas, but also about the significant criticisms which have been made concerning those ideas."
| **** | | Talk.Origins is a site promoting naturalism and arguing against Young Earth Creationism and Intelligent Design. This FAQ contains a critique of Intelligent Design theory and links to other anti-Intelligent Design sites. | **** | | This site contains a large collection of pro-evolution and anti-ID articles. The site appears linked to other anti-ID sites such as TalkDesign.org and TalkOrigins.org. | *** | | Professor of physics, the late Mark Perakh, has written a large number of articles critiquing Intelligent Design. | *** | | The Boston Review is a neutral "political and literary forum" which contains essays and articles written by noteworthy authors. Their evolution page contains articles by many big names on both sides of the creation - evolution issue. | *** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Naturalism. "NCSE" is a site devoted to "working to defend the teaching of evolution against sectarian attack." | *** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Naturalism. TalkDesign is "a sub-site of TalkOrigins.org " and is "dedicated to: Assessing the claims of the Intelligent Design movement from the perspective of mainstream science; Addressing the wider political, cultural, philosophical, moral, religious, and educational issues that have inspired the ID movement; [and] Providing an archive of materials that critically examine the scientific claims of the ID movement" . | *** | | Creation / Evolution Stance: Naturalism. The Panda's Thumb is a blog which describes itself as a place "where patrons gather to discuss evolutionary theory, critique the claims of the antievolution movement, defend the integrity of science and science education in America and around the world, and share good conversation." It is closely linked to the other anti-ID sites such as Talk Origins, the NCSE, and Talk Design, where its contributors regularly post. Various articles are posted which critique intelligent design theory and various creationist ideas. | ** | | This website aims to be an "unbiased archive where Youth from all perspectives can "come and present their thoughts regarding the origins and evolutionary development by uniformitarian [mainstream] and/or catastrophic means."
| ** | | This essay by evolutionary biologist Massimo Pigliucci critiques some of the fundamental concepts behidn intelligent design theory, such as Behe's idea of "irreducible complexity," (IC) and Dembski's "specified complexity" (SC). The essay gives alternative explanations for the origin of IC and SC, from a non-intelligent design perspective. | ** | | Part of the ActionBioscience, a "non-commercial, educational web site created and managed by BioScience Productions, Inc. to promote bioscience literacy by examining issues that will ... engage the public to reflect on the relationship between human activity and the natural course of evolution", this page hosts a number of articles from well known evolutionists including Donald Johanson, Tim Berra, and Niles Eldredge. It also has articles both for and against Intelligent Design from Natural History Magazine (April, 2002). | ** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: not creationism. Created by Wesley Elsberry, this pro-evolution site aims to be, "for the critical examination of the antievolution movement. Unlike antievolution advocacy web sites, this site aims to provide links to both the antievolutionists making their own arguments and also to the critics who provide mainstream science answers to those arguments." It has lists of people, links, graphics and documents, and an excellent diagramatic description of the various viewpoints of the creation-evolution issue. | ** | | The "BECSE" is a community group formed to stop the teaching of Design Theory at their local high school. The site details the group's work with the ACLU from 1998-2001, and their successful silencing of local biology teacher Roger DeHart. Contains a useful links page. | * | | This link contains a review of Darwin's Black Box by Michael Behe. | * | | Scientific American is a journal of popular technical science. This review, by Eugene C. Scott, exective director of the National Center for Science Education, is of the book "Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism" by Robert T. Pennock | * | | A part of the " Answers in Action website", this is a dialogue between 2 people (both pro and con) over Behe's mousetrap analogy and intelligent design. | * | | Part of the junk science website, this page sees Intelligent Design as a "threat to science education" and urges the reader to "take this threat seriously and meet it head on". | * | | This site is meant to provide links to people exploring the creation - evolution issue and "to gather both sides to a debate about creationism and evolution" so "both sides to learn of eachother and to argue against eachother" (sic). |
Pro-Creationism Websites | Ratings: **** = highest * = lowest |
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**** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Old Earth Creationism. Founded in 1986by Dr. Hugh Ross, "RTB" is dedicated to "Remove the doubts of skeptics, Strengthen the faith of believers, [and] Demonstrate that science and the Bible complement one another." This site tends to focus on astronomical arguments for God and Christianity. | **** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. The site contains various essays by subject as well as a HUGE list of links to other Pro-Creationism websites. | **** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. Founded and directed by Ken Ham, "AIG" is dedicated to "equip[ing] the Church to defend the authority and accuracy of the Bible from the very first verse, thereby enabling it to more effectively present the Gospel in our increasingly secular, evolutionary society." | **** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. "ICR" was founded in 1970 by Henry Morris, and is located near San Diego in Santee. They have a large number of online " Impact Articles". | **** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. Run by the Bible Science Association, this site has many interesting features including a Baloney Detector, and Creation - Evolution News Headlines. | **** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. This site is run by the South Bay Creation Science organization and has detailed explanations of the Noachian Flood and many other topics. | **** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. This site attempts to emulate the Talk.Origins site, and it also contains many links related to Intelligent Design. | **** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Old Earth Creationism. This site has articles devoted to Christian Apologetics, Evolution, and also a page describing Scientific Evidence of Answered Prayer. | **** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. Makes the statement that, "Creation Science is simply the practice of science with the assumption andacknowledgement that there is a creator God, versus the now standard operating assumption of naturalism (that nature is "all there is)." | **** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. Contains many articles about many evolution and creation topics, with a focus on Young Earth Creationism. | **** | | Creation / Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. The Biblical Creation Society is a creationist organization with various scientists, based out of the United Kingdom, that has existed since 1976. Their site has resources discussing the environment, Richard Dawkins, Design, and various scientific issues. | **** | | If you want to get the most up-to-date and well referenced briefs on current articles related to creation and evolution, this particular page is it. It is written for a popular audience with summaries of recent articles followed by entertaining commentary. It is typically written from the young Earth perspective, and their references to past articles is fantastic, allowing one to do as much more research as they choose on a given topic. | **** | | The Earth History Research Center is a "non-profit, non-sectarian organization of scientists established in 1996 by Drs. Lee Spencer and Art Chadwick" and has various scientific staff who have contributed scientific papers, including sections on evolution and speciation, human origins, the fossil record, and the origin of life. | **** | | Creation Ministries International is a large young earth creationist organization that publishes articles, Creation Magazine, the Journal of Creation, as well as many FAQs. | *** | | Does God Exist is a bi-monthly journal which tends to have lots of articles related to Intelligent Design (from a pro-Intelligent Design perspective). The journal also deals with many other subjects such as The problem of human suffering and other philosophical and moral issues. | *** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Old Earth Creationism. This site contains many great articles relating to both old and young earth creationist as well as evolutionist websites. | *** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. Statement: "The Center's primary objective has been to change the manner in which the public schools teach about evolutionary theories." Be sure to check out the Handy Dandy Evolution Refuter
| *** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. This site takes a while to load but has a huge volume of information about other creationist organizations, links, and literature. | *** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. Contains many articles about evolution and creation topics and a "Who's Who" FAQ on the creation evolution issue. | *** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. GenNet is "networking the scientific evidences of Genesis." | *** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. Supposedly run by teens, this site contains an online poll, and articles presenting both sides. | *** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. This young earth creationist organization in the Twin-Cities area of Minnesota hosts a variety of pages including articles, calendar of events in the Twin-Cities area, adventure safaris, and a monthly bulletin. | *** | | "The Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation presents the 'Catholic Seminar on Origins' to proclaim the fullness of the Catholic teaching on the origins of man and of the universe from the perspective of Scripture, Tradition, and natural science. These seminars can be adapted to any audience, from elementary to post-graduate, by members of the Kolbe Center staff and Advisory Council." | *** | | Exploration Films produced (and sells) the popular DVD " Incredible Creatures That Defy Evolution." From their site: "Where do we come from? This is a question that is fundamental to a student’s views on religion, ethics, morality, and even government. Are you searching for documentary films that explore intelligent design, creationism versus evolutionary science?" | ** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. Founded in 1963 by 10 scientists, "CRS" is "a scientific society with worldwide membership, [which] is recognized internationally for its firm commitment to scientific special creation. | ** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. Creation Science of Saskatchewan Inc. is an organization which distributes much young-earth creationist material in Canada. | ** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. Founded by Dr. Walt Brown, "CSC" describes itself as a, "non-profit organization ... dedicated to origins research. | ** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. This website has discussions of the Solar System, biology, philosophyhttp://www.questionevolution.com/geology.html, , as well as a rebuttal section from evolutionists. | ** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. Contains information about creationism in many languages--even Hungarian! | ** | | Though it is unclear who this site belongs to or what exactly they believe, it does contains some ideas related to intelligent design theory and references to various works by well known intelligent design enthusiasts. | ** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. Created by Fred Williams, this site claims it "presents a satirical look at the fairy tale of molecules-to-man evolution, demonstrating via graphical presentations the silliness of some of the hurdles an evolutionist must make to reconcile science with his faith in evolution". Resources include " Monkey-Man Hypothesis Thwarted by Mutation Rates," debates, critique of fossil evidence for evolution, evidence for the validity of the Bible, and a discussion of Haldane's dilemma. | ** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. This new San Diego area - run website is largely graphics based, with a "Flash" introduction and images related to Biblical creation. It also has links. | * | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. Website dedicated to the "Bible Science Association" which was founded by Dr. Walter Lang. | * | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism. |
Pro-Evolution / Anti-Creationism Websites | Ratings: **** = highest * = lowest |
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**** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Naturalism. Talk.Origins is a "Usenet newsgroup devoted to the discussion and debate of biological and physical origins." The site has many resources and is geared to argue against Creationism, particularly Young Earth Creationism. However many of their faq's are quite informative and unbiased in nature (though others aren't so unbiased). It also has a great list of links to other creation or evolution sites. | **** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Naturalism. This is the official website for the PBS series Evolution and it contains a number of pages explaining evolutionary theory, as it is exposited in each of the 7 episodes. It has an evolution library and resources for teachers and students. Click here for our PBS Evolution Critique Page. | **** | | This government-funded site is designed to be a teachers guide for evolution. Developed by the NCSE and UC Berkeley, it has a strong pro-evolution / anti-ID bias, however this site provides a good presentation of much of the information out there used in favor of teaching evolution. | *** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Naturalism. "NCSE" is a site devoted to "working to defend the teaching of evolution against sectarian attack." Their site also contains some links to online evolution exhibits | *** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Naturalism. This site has tons of "government" information about the creation evolution issue including Science and Creationism: A View from the NAS, 2nd Edition (1999). | ** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: not creationism. Created by Lenny Flank, this pro-evolution site has a lot of resources, and devotes much of its space to critiquing young-earth creationist arguments. although I'm not sure how useful the site is because it devotes a lot of space to promoting the false stereotype that creationists are uneducated lying people trying to promote religion, it does have many resources. | ** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Naturalism. This page contains commentary from an evolutionist perspective on a great number of commonly encountered issues in creation vs. evolution. | ** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Naturalism. This page presents information against intelligent design and against creationism and for evolution. | ** | | Creation-Evolution Stance: Theistic Evolution. Faith and Reason Ministries is a Christian theistic evolutionist site that offers a book called Science and Christianity by John D. Callahan, who discussions of Jesus is, and discussions of extraterrestrial life. | ** | | This page contains many links to articles that explain the basics of evolutionary theory, focusing on paleontology. | ** | | This website contains the writings and information from Edward T. Babinski, a pro-evolution agnostic author who is a former YEC Christian. The site contains, links to Cretinism vs. Evilution?, information on whale hind limbs, and his thoughts on YEC. |
Links to specific topics | Ratings: **** = highest * = lowest |
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*** | | This site contains the entire text of William Paley's 1802 book "Natural Theology; or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity". Historically, this is perhaps the best known work on the Design Argument. |
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