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Comments on the ISSR Statement on the Concept of 'Intelligent Design'

Ekklesia

Click here to read the News Brief.
Click here to read Ekklesia’s own response in summary.
Click here to read Simon Barrow’s paper on Theology, Science and the problem of ID

National Academy of Science

I noticed in your list of references a citation to the Academy's booklet, Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences, 2nd edition (1999). I am writing to let you know that in January 2008 the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine jointly released a major update and revision to this booklet. The new edition is titled Science, Evolution, and Creationism. The book and an 8-page summary brochure are available for downloading as pdf files without cost directly at http://nap.edu/sec or through a link on the Academy's evolution resources webpage, http://nationalacademies.org/evolution.

Professor Robert John Russell

"ID is either interventionist theology posing as science, which is deceptive and which could not legally be taught in a public highschool science class in the USA, or it is science, and if so it must be equivalent to the neo-Darwinian evolution and should not be taught as an alternative scientific theory.  The latter is obvious: if the evolution of life on earth required a designing agent, the agent must be an extra-terrestrial.  Did its evolution on its planet also require a designing agent?  If so, we face an infinite regress.  If not, then life somewhere evolved without a designing agent just as proposed by neo-Darwinian evolution.  QED."

The Church Times

To read the piece that appeared in the Church Times on 15 February 2008, please click here.

 
     
 

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