“The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected natural forces and that exhibit features which in any other circumstance we would attribute to intelligence.” ForceTermNaturalDesignCircumstancesClaimsIntelligentFundamentalsFeaturesAttributesStraightforwardExhibitsIntelligent Design Book:The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design Source: The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design
“The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to the intelligibility of the world. The match between our intelligence and the intelligibility of the world is no accident. Nor can it properly be attributed to natural selection, which places a premium on survival and reproduction and has no stake in truth or conscious thought. Indeed, meat-puppet robots are just fine as the output of a Darwinian evolutionary process.” IfsWorldWould BeProcessNaturalBehindsImpossibleFineSurvivalConsciousAccidentsMeatStakesRobotsSelectionPuppetsAdaptedNatural SelectionReproductionSerendipityOutputPremium Author:William A. Dembski
“Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right out and say there's nothing beyond nature. Rather, it says that nothing beyond nature could have any conceivable relevance to what happens in nature. Naturalism's answer to theism is not atheism but benign neglect. People are welcome to believe in God, though not a God who makes a difference in the natural order.” PeopleWorldBelieveSelfHappensLawOrderNaturalDifferencesAnswersViewsAtheismBlindAtheistWelcomeMaking A DifferenceNeglectBelieve In GodRelevanceNatural LawNaturalismUnbrokenBenignTheismNatural OrderSelf Contained Author:William A. Dembski
“The young earth-solution to reconciling the order of creation with natural history makes good exegetical and theological sense. Indeed, the overwhelming consensus of theologians up through the Reformation held to this view. I myself would adopt it in a heartbeat except that nature seems to present such strong evidence against it.” SeemsEarthYoungOrderStrongNaturalViewsCreationSolutionsEvidenceOverwhelmingTheologianConsensusHeartbeatReformationTheologicalNatural History Book:The End of Christianity: Finding a Good God in an Evil World Source: The End of Christianity: Finding a Good God in an Evil World
“The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance....Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms the Darwinian selection mechanism for small-scale changes, but hardly warrants the grand extrapolation that Darwinists want. It is a huge leap going from insects developing insecticide resistance via the Darwinian mechanism of natural selection and random variation to the very emergence of insects in the first place by that same mechanism.” WantFirstsNaturalHugeEvolutionEvidenceScalesResistanceDevelopingLeapMechanismSelectionInsectsVariationConfinedNatural SelectionEmergenceWarrantsDarwinismInsecticides Author:William A. Dembski
“Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.” FirstsNaturalGainsResistanceSelectionInsectsNatural SelectionBacteriaAntibioticsInsecticides Author:William A. Dembski
