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The IDEA Center's primary purpose is to encourage intellectually honest consideration of the scientific theory of intelligent design by helping students found chapters of "IDEA Clubs" at high schools and universities where they can discuss origins issues with their fellow students in a friendly and

The IDEA Center itself grew out of a student-run club at UC San Diego called the "IDEA Club." From its inception, a primary focus of the IDEA Center has been to help students start IDEA Club Student Chapters on their own high school and university campuses. IDEA Clubs are a place where students

[Editor's Note: This Chapter Locations page is currently being updated; some of this information is accurate but some is out-of-date. As of early 2009, there are about a dozen active / in-formation IDEA Clubs. Please keep checking back for updates in the near-future. Thanks! --The management.]

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

IDEA staff pose with UC Berkeley Law Professor Phillip Johnson after a Center - sponsored lecture. Our small staff is based out of San Diego, California, and handles the programs and activities of the IDEA Center. Professor Johnson, whose writings helped form the intelligent design movement, is a me

Please see the links at right, and below, for more information. IDEA Clubs are a growing network of student-led clubs on university and high school campuses around the United States and worldwide.   Most students today are not exposed to the full range of scientific evidence about

All IDEA Club leaders receive an IDEA Club leadership manual with tips, tools, and ideas about how to run a successful club. This manual is included with many other resources as a part of the IDEA Club's Startup Packet.About The IDEA Club Leadership Manual Every person who starts an IDEA Club

Pictured above is an early version of the IDEA Center's logo. The current logo (see graphic at top left), designed by Justin Kerr at Newfangled Web Factory, was implemented in 2003. The Origins of the IDEA CenterThe Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness (IDEA) Center is a 501(c)

Dennis Wagner is executive director of the Access Research Network (ARN), a non-profit organization dedicated to providing accessible information on science, technology and society issues from an intelligent design perspective. ARN is one of the best internet sites to gather information, news, and a

Introduction To some degree it’s understandable why Dr. Mark Perakh, in his book Unintelligent Design, uses words like “arrogant”, ”ignoramus”, “rude” and “ludicrous” to describe the statements of those he opposes. There are for example, any number of places that one can hear legalists, pundits

Below is a sample syllabus for the IDEA Course: Week Topic Date & Time Location Reading  (from Signs of Intelligence) Instructor(s) 1 Introduction to Intelligent Design Theory and the Creation - Evolution Issue; Watch Unlocking the Myst

Every IDEA Club chapter of the IDEA Center will be granted a charter, just to make everything official. Don't let the legal jargon here scare you off--this is just a formality in order to ensure that IDEA Clubs can be legally affiliated with the IDEA Center in the spirit of our mission statement. Th

08:56 AM 5/17/2005 =============== Dr. Scott, I'm Salvador Cordova, and I was featured in the April 28, 2005 ariticle in Nature. Our IDEA chapters have been exploring getting ID into the universities.  Though I'm well aware of NCSE's position regarding ID in

"Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different."--Sherlock HolmesWe all see the evidence through a d

Each IDEA Club receives their own copies of some of the best quality videoes that promote intelligent design. Our goal at the IDEA Center is to maximize the ability of IDEA Club Chapters to promote intelligent design. We realize that many students may not have the time, money, technology

Pictured above is the cover of Creationism's Trojan Horse by Barbarra Forrest and Paul R. Gross. Introduction In January of 2004, Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross released a book critiquing the intelligent design movement entitled, Creationism's Trojan Horse. This 300 page Oxford Univer

The Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness (IDEA) Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting awareness of the scientific evidence that supports intelligent design and fostering good - spirited discussion and a better understanding of intelligent design theory and the creation - e

Fill-in-the-blanks/multiple choice. For multiple choice, circle the correct response (none, one, some, or all may be correct). 1. Science was "born" in western Europe during the late Middle Ages. Many of the early practioners of modern science espoused the ___________ worldview, which they ex

In 1999, Casey founded the original IDEA Club at UC San Diego with a few friends and helped run the club for a few years while an undergraduate and graduate student at UCSD. Casey helped to co-found the IDEA Center with some other IDEA Club members.   Casey has a B.S. (2000) and M. S. (2

In 1999, Casey founded the original IDEA Club at UC San Diego with a few friends and helped run the club for a few years while an undergraduate and graduate student at UCSD. Casey helped to co-found the IDEA Center with some other IDEA Club members.   Casey has a B.S. (2000) and M. S. (2

Pictured above is the cover of Evolucionismo y conocimiento racional by Felipe Aizpún Viñes. Evolucionismo y conocimiento racional (Evolution and rational thought) presents a thoroughly comprehensive analysis of both the arguments in favor and against evolution and demonstrates the author’s

Below is my review of Jonathan Wells's new book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design was a fun, quick read. I should state upfront that I work at the Discovery Institute, where the author Jonathan

Does Panda's Black Box really contribute something new or is it just more Darwinist "name-calling and fingerpointing"?A new book has come out about intelligent design, published by Johns Hopkins University Press and titled The Panda’s Black Box, that promises on its dust-jacket that it “moves beyo

Please read on to learn more about how to start an IDEA Club! Are you interested in intelligent design and the debate over origins? Do you agree that there is a strong scientific case and many lines of evidence showing that life was designed by an intelligence? Would you like to promo

On April 28, 2005, the world's most prestigious scientific journal, Nature, published a cover story by Geoffrey Brumfiel on the growing intelligent-design movement in universities. The article reported on many facets of intelligent design in the universities, and featured George Mason University's

On May 23, 2005, evolutionary biologist H. Allen Orr published an editorial against intelligent design in the The New Yorker entitled "Devolution: Why intelligent design isn’t." The New Yorker is known as a fairly liberal magazine. I would love to see more liberals take intelligent design

Running an IDEA Club meeting is easy--if you book a room, and publicize it, people will come! All you have to do is introduce the meeting discusson topic, or introduce the speaker, and give the meeting a little momentum. Once discussion is started, it will usually continue to progress forwar

[Editor's Note: This article originally appeared as a four-part series on Evolution News and Views, as Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.] Introduction A few months ago I posted a review of Sean B. Carroll's book The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution , the boo

  Preface: Steven Stanley's The New Evolutionary Timetable Timetable: Fossils, Genes, and the Origin of Species [Basic Books, 1981] (herein referred to as "TNET") is a popular-level book which develops, explains, and defends Stanley’s punctuational model of evolution.[

[Editor's Note: This article is adapted from a series of posts originally posted on Evolution News and Views. The originals may be seen here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8.] I. IntroductionNot long before the beginning of the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover trial, then-Nati

This FAQ is a work progress. In the mean time, please consider the following discussion: To answer this question, we must first define creationism. There are many definitions of "creationism" out there. However, for rhetorical purposes, let's assume a definition of creationism coming from some o

The Short Answer: Point A. Science is not done by committee. It does not matter that intelligent design is rarely found in the journals because as free-thinking responsible scientists, we must test a theory ourselves and see if it holds up and not judge a theory based upon its apparent lack

Introduction The "origin of life" (OOL) is best described as the chemical and physical processes that brought into existence the first self-replicating molecule. It differs from the "evolution of life" because Darwinian evolution employs mutation and natural selection to change organisms, which req

FAQ 4: "Is intelligent design a credible scientific theory?" 4a. "No. There has been no original research published in scientific journals providing evidence for intelligent design, nor does intelligent design provide testable explanations." 4b. "The American Association for the Advancem

[Editor's note: This article was posted on behalf of Discovery Institute as part of a series of articles both for and against ID at OpposingViews.com.] "The part of Kitzmiller that finds ID not to be science is unnecessary, unconvincing, not particularly suited to the judicial role, and even perh

Pictured above is the cover of Tower of Babel by Robert T. Pennock. ‘And where might you come from, my fine lad?’ said Mr. Enlightenment. ‘From Puritania, sir,’ said John…. ‘Puritania! Why, I suppose you have been brought up to be afraid of the Landlord.’ ‘Well, I must admit I sometim

Welcome to our Origin and Complexity of Life collection (a collection of introductory quotes of interest to those starting off in the debate, as well as gurus looking to back up basic claims). Many of the quotes in our collections have been verified for accuracy, but not all have been verified. Thus