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In seminal book by Dembski (Cambridge University Press, 1998), the grounds for inferring design are laid out. This book is laden with mathematical symbols and logic argument, but has enough prose to still get the points across.

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

William Dembski has a Ph.D. in philosophy (Univerity of Illinois at Chicago), a Ph.D. in mathematics (University of Chicago), and a masters of divinity from Princeton. A mathematician and a philosopher, he is associate research professor in the conceptual foundations of science at Baylor University

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 d

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'

This book is published part of the Proceedings of the Wethersfield Institute based off of papers presented at a New York Conference in 1999. The authors provide revised and updated versions of their various arguments. Dembski promotes his "explanatory filter," while Meyer argues for the design of

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This book is a collection of essays by design theorists such as William Dembski, Jay Wesley Richards, Nancy Pearcy, Phillip Johnson, John Mark Reynolds, and Stephen C. Meyere, Walter Bradley, Michael Behe, and others. It includes both scientific and philosophical discussions of intelligent design.

This book deals with the philosophical and theological issues raised by the science of intelligent design theory. It is not intended as a scientific treatment, but Dembski, who holds both a Ph.D. in philosophy and a Masters in Divinity gives the issue a philosophical treatment. To an extent, it is

This short and somewhat technical journal, published by Michigan State University Press, contains a collection of essays by various authors discussing the implications of and arguments for accepting intelligent design into science. Contributing authors include John Angus Campbell (editor), William D

This seminal book on the methodology for detecting design argues that evolution is incapable of producing certain types of complexity, and that intelligent design is the best explanation. Chapter 5 includes a calculation of the specified complex information in the bacterial flagellum, and chapter 6

This great book is essentially a defense of intelligent design theory, responding to frequently asked questions or frequently raised objections. Among many topics covered, some include "sub-optimal design," "is intelligent design creationism?", and the "argument from ignorance" objection. If you ha

Pictured above is the cover of Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA edited by William Dembski and Michael Ruse. Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA gives many viewpoints about origins the chance to state their case. It is a wonderful example of how constructive dialogue can occur over the

Written by a medical doctor, this book discusses aspects of the design of human and animal physiology. It contains factually informative discussions of many aspects of physiology, anatomy, and the human body. After explaining how many biological systems work, the book gives treatement to how they

The IDEA Center Advisory Board consists of a number of scholars, authors, and scientists, from a wide range of disciplines, who have a pro-intelligent design perspective in their academic work. Their purpose is to advise the IDEA Center in its endeavors as they see fit or whenever called upon. We a

This book is a collection of essays by names such as Hugh Ross, Michael Behe, Philip Johnson, and David Berlinski which discuss the meaning of intelligent design and existence of God. The book was born out of the "Mere Creation" conference at Biola University in 1996, the essays are generally techni

Unlocking the Mystery of Life is the story of contemporary scientists who are advancing a powerful, but controversial, idea-the theory of "intelligent design." It is a theory based upon compelling biochemical evidence. The story begins with a landmark meeting of design theorists assembled by Profess

This neutral volume gives many viewpoints about origins the chance to state their case. It is a wonderful example of how constructive dialogue can occur over the origins issue, and a testimony to the fact that ID proponents are interested in dialogue, cooperative inquiry, and sharing the microphone

Intelligent design critic Robert T. Pennock edits an 805 page volume of over 20 authors, most of whom critique intelligent design, apparently naming it "creationism" in the title. Critical authors include Barbara Forrest, Howard J. Van Till, Philip Kitcher, Michael Ruse, Elliot Sober, Nancey Murphy

Published in 2003, this 600 page multidisciplinary volume contains technical essays from many members of the intelligent design movement including Stephen C. Meyer, David DeWlf, Michael Keas, David Berlinski, Alvin Palntinga, Jonathan Wells, William Dembski, Paul Chien, and Michael Behe. It also in

The IDEA Center has three tiers of leadership: An Administration Team, a Board of Directors, and an Advisory Board. The IDEA Center has 3 tiers of leadership--an Administration Team (i.e. Staff), a Board of Directors, and an Advisory Board. The Administration Team runs the day-to-day operation

Short answer. 1. What is intelligent design according to Richards? 2. What is the difference between an implication and a presupposition, and why does the distinction matter in this discussion? 3. What is the difference between "natural" and "revealed" theology? 4. Define the cosmologi

Intelligent Design Uncensored: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to the Controversy is a book I've long hoped that someone would write. Don't get me wrong -- there are other good books out there that explain the fundamentals of intelligent design (ID) in plain language. But with clarity, elegance, and a

Intelligent design is a scientific theory which has its roots in information theory and observations about intelligent action. Intelligent design theory makes inferences based upon observations about the types of complexity that can be produced by the action of intelligent agents vs. the types of i

The Short Answer: No. Some biological structures may have resulted from a combination of both design and evolution. Most intelligent design proponents accept microevolution but question if macroevolutionary changes are possible. Intelligent design theory questions if evolution can produce ir

Delving into the writings of intelligent design theorists, one will encounter a large number of terms reminiscent of things out of a nightmare about a failed college math midterm. This intellectually intimidating nomenclature can come in the form of what appears to be esoteric jargon, cryptic acron

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

The Short Answer: A false positive is when you say something is true, but it really isn't. Right now, science probably have to worry about ID producing false negative (saying something ID isn't designed, when it really is) because science already operates under the presumption that nothing is de

Some Scientists Won't Acknowledge Religion: In a recent book review in Nature"A healthy draught of scepticism," criticized those who believe in supernatural events. The review author, Walter Gratzer, said that those who believe in various supernatural beings or reject that humans are des

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

The Short Answer: Intelligent design does not merely claim that the origin of complex (i.e. irreducibly complex) biological structures are unexplained, but rather that they are in principle unexplainable. They are not unexplainable because they are unexplained, but rather the converse is true, for

It's important to realize that when dealing with historical sciences like neo-Darwinian evolution or intelligent design, new knowledge takes the form of both practical insights into the workings of biology in the present day (which can lead to insights into fighting disease), as well as taking the f

The Short Answer: No. Intelligent design theory makes no claim as to "how" the design occurred, whether it was by natural, or even supernatural causes. In fact, all you can detect through intelligent design theory is that an object was designed--not the metaphysical nature of its causation. That

Dr. William A. DembskiPhoto © László BenczeThis interview was originally conducted in two parts by IDEA Center staffer, Mario A. Lopez, with collaboration from Eduardo Arroyo Pardo for the Pro-ID Spanish website, Organizacion Internacional para el Avance Cientifico del Diseno Inteligente (OIACDI) (f

I was recently asked by an evolutionary biologist where ID can help science generate "new knowledge." It's important to realize that when dealing with historical sciences like neo-Darwinian evolution or intelligent design, new knowledge takes the form of both practical insights into the workings of

Introduction Many critics of intelligent design (including various critics in the April, 28, 2005 Nature article on ID) have stated that intelligent design is an argument for the existence of God, or that it posits an explicitly supernatural creator. This, they might argue, is detrimental to intel

[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.] "In all irreducibly complex systems in which the cause of the system is known by experience or observation, intelligent design or engineering pla

The theory of intelligent design is a hypothesis that can be positively tested. Intelligent design begins with observations of how intelligent agents act when designing things. By observing human intelligent agents, there is actually quite a bit we can learn know and understand about the actions of

The Short Answer: Paley argued only from a philosophical notion of "purposeful perfection," not a mathematical form of specified complexity. His arguments for design were not rigorous like those of modern day design theorists, and had philosophical overtones related to Christian theism. That is

This page is a work in progress, but for now, it houses some basic information about the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) and how to respond to some of their basic arguments against intelligent design and general creationism. First, a bit about the NCSE: The NCSE is, "a nonprofit,

The Short Answer: No, definitely not. Some people claim intelligent design theory is somehow trying to "sabotage science" by doing a variety of things including a) injecting theology into science (or substitute belief in God of the scientific method) or b) forcing a political agenda upon science.

The Short Answer: No. Some critics have misunderstood intelligent design and claimed that it is merely claims that because we can't figure out how some biological structures could have arisen, therefore they were probably designed. The argument for design is not like this. In reality, the argument

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

The Short Answer: Intelligent design theory detect design by looking for the very general tell-tale signs that a designer was at work. The tell-tale sign that is usually looked for is a form of information produced only by the action of intelligence called "complex and specified information." When