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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

Our "FAQs" and "Primers" are summaries (sometimes illustrated) of topics of interest in the debate over intelligent design (ID) and evolution. "F.A.Q.s" are answers to Frequently Asked Questions. "Primers" are short introductions to common topics. Some of these pages are general, and might not h

FAQ 7: "Is evolution education important?" 7a. "Yes. The National Association of Biology Teaches [sic] and the National Science Teachers Association agree that evolution is crucial to science education." 7b. "Efforts to undermine evolution education, such as the Dover Area School Board’s

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 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: 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

The best legal resource you can find is an attorney. Nonetheless, below is a list of resources we have enjoyed reading which you might also find informative regarding legal issues! "Intelligent Design Will Survive Kitzmiller v. Dover," by and David K. DeWolf, John G. West, Casey Luskin, publishe

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 Short Answer: Not at all. Intelligent design works off positive predictions about where experience tells us that intelligent design is the cause at work. Furthermore, the "gap" in Darwinian evolution is not a gap in knowledge, but a fundamental theoretical gap that represents an aspect of bi

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

***Santorum Amendment Update*** On January 8, 2002, President Bush signed into law the H.R. 1, the "No Child Left Behind Act," into which the "Santorum Amendment" was originally included. There has been some dispute over whether or not the Santorum Amendment (further described below) was actually

Introduction On June 8, 2005, prolific writer Scott LaFee wrote an article (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20050608-9999-lz1c08intel.html) in the San Diego Union Tribune on a truly interesting topic: Intelligent Design (ID). As the title of the article implies, LaFee interviewed m

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

The Short Answer: No. Members of the ID movement want to teach evolution--and teach it better! We want all the evidence surrounding the origins issue to be taught, and we want students to understand evolution better, and learn the full range of scientific evidence on the important subject of "o

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

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

1611: King James Bible published5 1654: Archbishop Usher calculates that the world was created in 4004 B.C. 5 1802: Paley publishes "Natural Theology"5 1830: Charles Lyell publishes Principles of Geology, one of Darwin's primary sources5 1859: T.H. Huxley, atheist, "Darwin's Bulldog," and s