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Why Intelligent Design Is Science: A Reading List

The scientific method is commonly described as a four-step process involving observations, hypothesis, experiments, and conclusion. Read More ›
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Design Inference vs. Design Hypothesis

On a bright December day in 1994 in Green Valley, Arizona, the term "design inference" hit me. Read More ›
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How Do We Know Intelligent Design Is a Scientific “Theory”?

Let's take the definition of "theory" given by ID's most eminent scientific critics, and if ID meets that definition then there's a good bet ID may properly be considered a scientific theory. Read More ›
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Second Verse Same as the First: Practice Science, Follow the Evidence Where it Leads

I might have titled this post, “Eastern Mystics Join Western Fundamentalist Conspiracy,” except that there are those out there that would howl to the highest that I had finally admitted we are fundamentalists with a secret conspiracy. (First, I’m fundamentally not a fundamentalist, and the so-called “secret conspiracy” is neither secret nor a conspiracy.) Instead, I have a title that neatly sums up the point made in the Asian Tribune today, titled Is our evolving universe an intelligent design?, by essayist Vasantha Raja. It is an excellent article in which Raja shows that following the evidence where it leads isn’t a fundamentalist conspiracy to convert the world in whichever direction at all, it is rather what the scientific method should Read More ›

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