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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: 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

Texas Decision Gives ID Proponents Some, but Not All They Asked for; Textbooks Will be Improved: According to a News Article in the Texas Tech Daily, the Texas State Board of Education voted on November 7, 2003 to adopt the "recommendationfor the elimination of factual errors in high scho

TheOnion.com Reports Ancient Race of Skeleton People: In a landmark find, the satire website, TheOnion.com reports that an Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race of Skeleton People. Apparently a team of British and Egyptian archaeologists found "'skeleton people'—skinless, organless huma

Can Science Prove the Existence of God? A recent New York Times article, "Can Science Prove the Existence of God?," has discussed the fine-tuning of the universe as a possible argument for the existence of God. The article noted that, "Almost any book or conference on science and religion

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

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

Controversy over Thermal Vents Heating Up: A recent BBC news article, "Row erupts over 'life-starter' vents ," thermal vents, thought by some to be ancient sources of underwater heat that might have spawned the origin of life billions of years ago, may really be "nothing more than deposits

Is the Latest "Feathered Dinosaur" Actually a Secondarily Flightless Bird? MSNBC recently had an article titled "Fine-feathered dino sported bizarre bird tail," reporting on the find of Epidexipteryx hui, a "pigeon-sized dinosaur that lived more than 100 million years ago [that] sported fo

In early 2010, it was widely reported on internet news sites that biotech guru Craig Venter and his team have created "artificial life." BBC News has a good description of what was really done:How a Synthetic Cell Was Created: 1. The scientists "decoded" the chromosome of an existing bacterial ce

What is Intelligent Design? According to sources close to the IDEA Center, "What is intelligent design?" was a question on Jeopardy to which the answer was something like "a theory which is a 'rival to evolution.'" The reported category was "Smart Stuff." It looks like ID is making it

Nano-machines in 'simple' bacteria?: Should one be that surprised to hear that there are nano-machines even in some of the simplest organisms - bacteria? A recent article in the May 2005 edition of the journal Structure discusses the rotary clock found in cyanobacteria (see Jimin Wang, “Recent 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

Vital organs gave snakes their venom: An Evolutionary Tail: A letter in Genome Research states that snake venoms evolved from other proteins in their body so that they could be toxic to other animals. But if such toxins were designed, then wouldn’t it make sense to just tweak proteins al

On November 27, 2004, Dr. Eugenie Scott (National Center for Science Education) and Dr. John West (Discovery Institute) faced off on Fox News discussing whether or not intelligent design should be taught in Dover, Pennsylvania. The IDEA Center is pleased to see Fox News covering this issue. Anyone

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

Newsweek recently wrote an article (also reprinted on the Discovery Institute's website) on Intelligent Design. There are two responses below, one a very short response, while the other is a rather detailed response. SHORT VERSION: Dear Editor: In the article entitled Doubting Darwin (

For more comprehensive yet concise response to the Kitzmiller decision, coauthored by the author of this page, check out Traipsing Into Evolution by David DeWolf, John G. West, Casey Luskin, and Jonathan Witt. Version 2.0, last updated March 20, 2006 Introduction: This is a response to

FAQ 3: "Where did intelligent design come from?" 3a. "The term 'intelligent design' was popularized in Of Pandas and People, the very textbook that was adopted for use in the Dover Area schools." 3b. "Intelligent design and Of Pandas [sic] emerged in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decis

Click here for a reproducible PDF of this article. Intelligent design -- often called "ID" -- is a scientific theory that holds that the emergence of some features of the universe and living things is best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selecti

Welcome to our Human Origins quote collection. Many of the quotes in our collections have been verified for accuracy, but not all have been verified. Thus, we present our quote-collections as a starting point for research, and suggest you verify any individual quote before using it. If you have inf

Introduction: The famous philosopher of science Karl Popper wrote that all scientific theories must be falsifiable. In order for a theory to be held tentatively and have an empirical basis, Popper argued that it must be subject to falsification and it must be able to be subjected to meaningful tes

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

Introduction On February 12, 2004, San Diego Union Tribune columnist James O. Goldsborough wrote an opinion article entitled "Another attempt to deny evolution." Dozens of news or opinion (or opinionated news) articles have been written nationwide regarding intelligent design over the pa

Copyright © 2016. Version 1.0. Permission Granted to Reproduce for Educational Purposes   Click here for a printable PDF of this article.   What is Intelligent Design? Intelligent design—often called “ID”—is a scientific theory that holds that the emergence of some features of the uni

Quick Quote "When we replace the traditional idea of God the creator with the idea of the process of natural selection doing the creating, the creation is as wonderful as it ever was. All that great design work had to be done. It just wasn’t done by an individual, it was done by this huge process

There is an abundant wealth of evidence from the workings of physics, chemistry, and properties of the universe, our solar system, and earth which indicate that life on earth did not happen by accident--it was planned. These arguments are typically called "anthropic principles," where physical pro

[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

[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