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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

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.

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

This book discusses a new form of the "anthropic argument" for the design of the cosmos and solar system, in that it finds that not only does the universe appear designed for life, but our habitat appears to be designed for discovery .

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

This 7 hour video contains all the major talks given at the IDEA Conference 2002 at the University of San Francisco. The Conference was sponsored by the IDEA Center and the video has talks from speakers such as Jay Wesley Richards, Paul Nelson, Edward Peltzer, Paul Chien, and Michael Behe.

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

IDEA Conference 2002 speakers and organizers, including Michael Behe, Paul Nelson, Jay Richards, and Cornelius G. Hunter. The IDEA Center periodically hosts large 1-2 day conferences which teach both introductory and advanced topics in intelligent design science and the debate over evolut

IDEA Conference 2002 speakers and organizers, including Michael Behe, Paul Nelson, Jay Richards, and Cornelius G. Hunter. The IDEA Center periodically hosts large 1-2 day conferences which teach both introductory and advanced topics in intelligent design theory and the creation - evolution

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 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.

For immediate access to websites, articles, and organizations in the intelligent design movement, please also visit: IntelligentDesign.org

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

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

One of our prior IDEA Courses, taught in the spring of 2004, was a 15 week course entitled, "The IDEA Course in Orange County." (Please note that the above graphic is not intended to be a mockery of Charles Darwin or the theory of evolution. It is merely a parody of the movie Orange County

Pictured above is the cover of The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel. Is the case for evolution clearly a shut case? Are all the basic aspects of evolutionary theory known to be correct? Can the entire universe be explained simply in terms of matter and energy? Do science and religion co

Conference Speakers: Conference speakers include scientists, authors, and scholars from the intelligent design movement such as:    Michael Behe, Ph.D. Research biochemist at Lehigh University and author of Darwin's Black Box.Conference Talk: Plenary Session VII: Irreducible C

Is Neo-Darwinism the only explanation for life's complexity?

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Introduction.Guillermo Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Iowa State University. He received his Ph.D. in Astronomy in 1993 from the University of Washington. He has done post-doctoral work at the University of Texas, Austin and at the University of Washington and has received fellow

The Short Answer: Yes. The scientific theory of intelligent design deals with the efficient cause of life--the mechanism that created it. The scientific theory of intelligent design is independent of the final cause, or the purpose of the design. In other words, things can be designed whether th

Pictured above is an early version of the IDEA Center's logo. The current logo (see graphic at top left), designed by Justin Kerr at Newfangled Web Factory, was implemented in 2003. The Origins of the IDEA CenterThe Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness (IDEA) Center is a 501(c)

The Short Answer: Something could be designed even if it does not work with 100% energetic efficiency. Purposefully energetically inefficient designs aside, natural design constraints often require some aspects of design to not work at 100% optimal efficiency. Have you ever driven a Ford Pinto?

Ryan Huxley was interviewed about ID by the LA Times for their 8/14/05 edition.

The Short Answer: Of course our answer to this question is "no." ID proponents are very clear about what they want: (1) for legitimate scientific critiques of evolution to be taught and (2) for teachers to be free to teach the evidence supporting intelligent design, if they want to do so. This i

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: If we seek truth, design is progress for science. Inferring design in no way stops science from achieving its goal to understand nature. Like any new paradigm, design opens up new doors to research. Many evolutionary biologists might not yet see these doors because they have bee

One would think that with the hubbub related to intelligent design these days, people would be more aware of an accurate understanding of what it is. But, it seems the SDUT falls short again on this topic and related issues, as evidenced by the recent editorial “Voodoo Science” (SDUT 11/21/05). Wh

Note: This FAQ was written around 2004. ID has made a lot of progress since that time. The Short Answer: ID has made much progress in its < 10 year existence. This includes refining the methods through which we can detect design, to finding a number of examples of design in biology. Design has al

In his book Coming to Peace with Science, Point Loma Nazarene University biology professor Darrel R. Falk argues that shared non-functional (aka junk) DNA between humans, apes, and other species is evidence of their common ancestry. Falk in his book prefers to use the term "gibberish" rather than "

The Short Answer: Intelligent design theory is a scientific theory even though some religions also teach that life was designed. One can arrive at the conclusion that life was designed through both the scientific method, or through religious methods (i.e. faith/divine revelation). Science is a "

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

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 organizati

In August 2008, The New York Times reprinted material from the NCSE claiming that the 19th century embryologist Ernst Haeckel's "longdiscredited drawings" of vertebrate embryos have not been used in textbooks since "20 years ago."261 That Haeckel's drawings were fraudulent and have been used in tex

A response to "Who's the real fraud?" * (forerunner of "Icon of Obfuscation") by Nic Tamzek, a rebuttal to Jonathan Wells' book Icons of Evolution (see www.iconsofevolution.org), as distributed by dissenters attending Jonathan Wells' lecture at UC San Diego on January 29th, 2002. Introduction

This collection of essays by various philosophers discuss the relationship between science and religion. Most take a pro-evolution viewpoint, and feel that religion should generally be subservient to science. Noteworthy contributors include Nancey Murphy, John Polkinghorne, and Arthur Peacocke.