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Below is an archive of previous events sponsored by the IDEA Center. Please click on an event to see details, or see also these links to other past events: Previous IDEA Conferences Past IDEA Courses

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

Need information? We hope that as you use the resources links at left, you'll find what you're looking for! The IDEA Center aims to provide useful resources related to intelligent design and evolution. Please select from the following links which contain resources: Articles on Intell

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.

This page contains many links to articles that explain the basics of evolutionary theory, focusing on paleontology.

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: 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.

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.

Please view the links below for more information about past IDEA Conferences: Think Again Conference at Carlsbad Community Church, 2003 Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness Conference at USF, 2002 Who is God? Conference at North Coast Calvary Chapel, 2001

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: Young Earth Creationism. The site contains various essays by subject as well as a HUGE list of links to other Pro-Creationism websites.

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.

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.

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 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.

Please view the links below for more information about past IDEA Courses: The IDEA Course Reloaded (Fall, 2003) The Rock IDEA Course (Spring, 2003) The IDEA Course 2002 (Spring, 2002)

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).

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.

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 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.

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

Pictured above is a FAKE cover of the San Diego Union Tribune, which in reality actually did publish an inaccurate article against intelligent design on June 8th, 2005. The article only interviewed scientists who were anti-ID and contained no quotes from pro-ID scientists or organizations.

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 li

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

This compact book provides an excellent summary of many of the major arguments against evolution, and the book is intended as a response to Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science by the National Academy of Sciences. It provides in depth discussions of the issues raised in the NAS booklet

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

IDEA 2002 Conference Registration is now closed. Please check conference main page for any updates about future IDEA conferences. If you have any immediate questions about the conference, please feel free to e-mail us at "conference@ideacenter.org".

Final Course Report: The IDEA Center finished up this 6 week IDEA Course in March of 2003. The course was taught in conjunction with The Rock Church. We had about 10 registrants, with about 5 attending each week. The IDEA Center would like to thank The Rock Church and for permitting us to help teac

Phillip Johnson is a graduate of Harvard and the Univesity of Chicago Law School where he graduated first in his class. He was a law clerk for Chief Justice Earl Warren and taught law at UC Berkeley for over 25 years, serving as the Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law before recently retiring to

Pictured above is a FAKE cover of the San Diego Union Tribune, which in reality actually did publish an inaccurate article against intelligent design on June 8th, 2005. The article only interviewed scientists who were anti-ID and contained no quotes from pro-ID scientists or organizations.

Below is the syllabus for the IDEA Course at Community Bible Church: Week Topic Date & Time Location Reading  (from I. Signs of Intelligence, II. By Design or by Chance?, & III. Case for a Creator) Instructor(s) 1 Origins of Life

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

As a young man, Charles Darwin was actually an avid reader of The Light Bulb Please browse the links below for information about intelligent design and creation - evolution news and events. News:      IDEA Center Press Releases      

Short answer. 1. Define methodological naturalism. 2. Should science be a search for the best explanation, or the best naturalistic explanation? Try arguing for both viewpoints. Which one makes more sense to you? Why? 3. What does Nelson mean by "triangulation" in scientific inference?

Darwinism predicts that there should be intermediate stages in the evolution of life between the ancestral form of an organism and its presumed descendent. These “transitional forms” or “missing links,” however, are usually absent. Charles Darwin said in The Origin of Species:...The number of inte

With all the recent discussion about textbook disclaimers regarding evolution, we at the IDEA Center got to thinking. We feel the arguments used by Darwinists to advocate teaching only evidence for evolution in science classrooms are weak. To illustrate, we created mock disclaimers for biology tex

For each of the speakers below, the conference quiz questions and answers (sometimes) are available: Michael Behe: Irreducible Complexity and Biological Design. Paul Chien: Intelligent Design and the Origin of Animal Phyla. Eddie Colanter: The Philosophical Implications of Intelligent Design

Making a donation to the IDEA Center makes you an IDEA Center member, and also helps support IDEA Clubs, where students and others are promoting a better understanding of intelligent design theory around the United States and world. "IDEA Center members" receive our notice of our free n

The IDEA Course Reloaded was the third IDEA Course taught by the Center. It was so named because it saw vast improvements over previous IDEA Courses, and plus it just sounded cool. Course Update: This IDEA Course finished up on November 24, 2003. We had between 15 and 20 registrants, w

The IDEA Center lending library is a collection of resources, related to intelligent design and the creation - evolution issue, that are available for free loan to any IDEA Clubs. The items in the library belong to individuals who are affiliated with the IDEA Center, and they are willing to mak

All statements below are True or False. 1. Personhood is a universal quality that human beings acquire at birth. 2. One's worldview does not effect one's belief of what human beings are. 3. Hylomorphism is the view that human beings consist of form in matter. 4. Jesus Christ took on humanity

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

Dr. Jay Wesley Richards, co-author of The Privileged Planet, teaches note-taking audience members about the design of the universe during an IDEA Conference. The focus of all of the IDEA Center's activities is education.  We have a variety of programs through which we educate those int

Jay Wesley Richards has a Ph.D.(honors) in philosophy and theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. He has served as executive and associate editor of The Princeton Theological Review and president of the Charles Hodge Society at Princeton Theological Seminary. In 2004, he co-authored The Privil

Short answer. 1. What is the correlation between habitability and measurability ("the correlation")? 2. What is the Copernican Principle? 3. How does the Copernican Principle relate to the Copernican Revolution? 4. What is the Anthropic Principle? 5. What is "fine-tuning"? 6. Wha