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How Can We Positively Test Intelligent Design?

By Casey Luskin

Intelligent design (ID) has scientific merit because it uses the scientific method to make its claims and infers design by testing its positive predictions

By Casey Luskin

Any larger philosophical implications of intelligent design, or any religious motives, beliefs, and affiliations of ID proponents, do not disqualify ID from having scientific merit

By Casey Luskin

Intelligent Design Has Scientific Merit in Paleontology

By Casey Luskin

A Primer on the Tree of Life

By Casey Luskin

Where Does the Evidence Lead? Video Discussion and Study Guide

By Ryan Huxley

Unlocking the Mystery of Life Video Discussion and Study Guide

By Ryan Huxley

The Privileged Planet Video Discussion and Study Guide

By Ryan Huxley

Darwin's Dilemma Video Discussion and Study Guide

By Ryan Huxley

Flight Video Discussion and Study Guide

By Ryan Huxley

How Do We Know Intelligent Design Is a Scientific Theory?

By Casey Luskin

Does Intelligent Design Help Science Generate New Knowledge?

By Casey Luskin

How We Can Know Intelligent Design Is Science

By Casey Luskin

The Top Ten Scientific Problems with Biological and Chemical Evolution

Casey Luskin

An Introduction to Intelligent Design

By Casey Luskin, M.S., J.D.
cluskin@discovery.org, casey@ideacenter.org

A Slightly Technical Introduction to Intelligent Design: Biology, Physics, Mathematics, and Information Theory

By Casey Luskin; casey.luskin@gmail.com, casey@ideacenter.org

The Positive, Testable Case for Design

by Casey Luskin

Intelligent Design and the Death of the "Junk-DNA" Neo-Darwinian Paradigm

Casey Luskin
Fall, 2007

An Introduction to Intelligent Design

By Steve Renner

Intelligent Design is based upon the Scientific Method, Not Blind Faith

Steve Renner

The Science Behind Intelligent Design Theory

Intelligent Design Jargon Explained!

By Casey Luskin

Irreducible Complexity: The Challenge to the Darwinian Evolutionary Explanations of many Biochemical Structures

Intelligent Design Theory, and the Relationship between Science and Religion

by Casey Luskin

Punctuated Equilibrium and Patterns from the Fossil Record

by Casey Luskin

Design vs. Descent: A Contest of Predictions

by Casey Luskin

Information Theory Demystified

Scott Uminsky

Problems with the Natural Chemical "Origin of Life" (updated)

by Casey Luskin

Evidence of the Design of the Universe through the Anthropic Principle

Human Origins and Intelligent Design (Less Technical)

by Casey Luskin

Principled (not Rhetorical) Reasons Why Intelligent Design Doesn't Identify the Designer

By Casey Luskin

Evolution and the Problem of Non-Functional Intermediates

By Casey Luskin

Non-Functional Intermediates in Human Physiology

The Origin of Human Speech: an "all or nothing" jump!

The Overselling of Ardipithecus ramidus

By Casey Luskin

Is the Panda's Thumb a "Clumsy" Adaptation that Refutes Intelligent Design?

By Casey Luskin

The Vertebrate Animal Heart: Unevolvable, whether Primitive or Complex

Paleoanthropologists Disown Homo habilis from Our Direct Family Tree

Casey Luskin

The DNA - Enzyme System is Irreducibly Complex

ID Does Not Address Religious Claims About the Supernatural

Hawkmoth Defense Mechanisms: A Case Study in an Unevolvable Irreducibly Complex System

Metabolism: An Highly Complex and Unevolvable Biological Feature

Is Intelligent Design Theory Really an Argument for "God"?

by Casey Luskin

Linguistics: Finding Immaterial Properties of Life

Problems with Panspermia or Extraterrestrial Origin of Life Scenarios

The Implications of Antibiotic and Antiviral Drug Resistance for the Power of Darwinian Evolution

By Casey Luskin

Some Proposed Tests of Evolutionary Theory

Darwin, Intelligent Design, and Freedom of Discovery on Evolutionists' Holy Day

By Casey Luskin

Biogeographical Challenges to Neo-Darwinian Evolution

Casey Luskin

Biology Textbooks Misuse Embryology to Argue for Evolution

Casey Luskin

List of Intellectual Doubters of Darwinism

Peer-Reviewed Paper Investigating Origin of Information Endorses Irreducible Complexity and Intelligent Design

Casey Luskin

Information Theory: Common Misconceptions

By Scott Uminsky

MicroRNAs--"Once Dismissed as Junk"--Confirmed To Have Important Gene Regulatory Function

Casey Luskin

Convergent Genetic Evolution: "Surprising" Under Unguided Evolution, Expected Under Intelligent Design

Casey Luskin

The Rise and Fall of Missing Link Superstar "Ida"

By Casey Luskin

The Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Does Not Refute Intelligent Design

Casey Luskin

FEATURE FAQ: Can irreducible complexity be evolved via gene duplication and co-optation of parts?

Archaeopteryx and Intelligent Design

Casey Luskin

New Defense of William A. Dembski against Criticisms from Wesley Elsberry and Jeffrey Shallit

Good Theology and Bad Design or Bad Theology and Good Design?

by Casey Luskin

An Interview with Dr. William A. Dembski (Updated)

Mario Lopez

An Interview with Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez

By Mario A. López & Eduardo Arroyo Pardo

An Interview with Dr. Michael J. Behe

Mario A. López

Commentary - Caroline Crocker: Intellectual freedom must include conservative professors, scientists

By Caroline Crocker

Academic freedom and evolution

Casey Luskin

Is "Evolution" a "Theory" or "Fact" or Is This Just a Trivial Game of Semantics?

By Casey Luskin

Leading Origin of Life Researcher: "Genetic Information More or Less Came out of Nowhere"

By Casey Luskin

Summary of Breakdowns in Attempts to Reconstruct the Tree of Life

Background on the Santorum Amendment to No Child Left Behind Act

When Nature Called: Reflections and Responses to the Nature Articles Mentioning IDEA

Intelligent Design 101: A Reply to Francis Collins’s Darwinian Arguments for Common Ancestry of Apes and Humans

"Five Years Old, Yet Still Packing a Punch" a review of Icons of Evolution by Tristan Abbey [off site]

An Interview with Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez

Fall 2006 Light Bulb Newsletter

Is Peer-Review a Requirement of Good Science?