The Intelligent Design Movement

A New Frontier in Science

History has seen its share of scientific revolutions: from relativity, to the discovery of the atom, to the development of creationism, humans are constantly expanding their vast knowledge of nature. Some consider Darwin’s development of evolutionary theory to be among these great leaps forward. For decades, though, leading biologists have grown increasingly unhappy with evolution’s numerous shortcomings. Lately, much of the scientific community has been hijacked by rabid, ideological secularists who have continually tried to eradicate opposition to their dogma of blind evolution.

A new path has emerged from the crumbling tower of evolutionary theory: Intelligent Design (ID). ID realizes that a fundamental premise of evolution—that species change and adapt over time—is fact, and cannot be challenged. The reason that we have so many different types of dogs, for example, is because humans harness evolution for selective breeding. Unlike evolution however, ID posits that life, as we know it, is too complicated to have occurred by random evolution alone. Only an intelligent, non-denominational designer could have been capable of creating the complex biological structures we see today. New studies in Intelligent Design are also showing that such a non-denominational creator may have also been integral in actively guiding evolution. While common sense shows why this is true, detailed statistical analysis can verify this gut instinct.

Intelligent Design and Our Children

America has its current global dominance because of a commitment to education that has produced some of the most original and resourceful thinkers ever. Our children deserve to hear both sides of every controversy in order to think resourcefully and make informed decisions.

Unfortunately, materialistic atheists, posing as scientists, have aggressively fought against any mention of ID in the classroom. They have tried to curtail the rights of our children to hear the full story. Instead of taking part in an enlightened debate against their critics, today’s evolutionists simply try to sweep ID under the rug. Why? Because they realize that they have a broken theory, a theory that can’t explain everything.

The evolutionists’ flat denial that ID is a scientifically viable theory exposes how biology, and much of science, has become an ideology indistinguishable from religion itself. The first amendment of the US Constitution mandates a separation of church and state. The US Supreme Court has ruled numerous times that this separation applies to public schools. If school prayer is unconstitutional, then why have our biology classrooms been turned into an altar to the religion of science? The fact of the matter is that the constitution protects believers as well as non-believers. Teaching evolution alone breaks this balance.

What REAL Scientists are Saying about ID

While many people chose to ignore ID and blindly followed the failed doctrine of Darwin, biology’s leading scientists, hailing from major fundamentalist, Evangelical universities in the US, are saying:

“Intelligent design is posing questions that need to be asked and are being shut out of public debate.”
--Russell D. Moore, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

“Today, qualified scientists are reaching the conclusion that [intelligent] design theory makes better sense of the data [for such questions as] whether the DNA code is the result of natural causes or an intelligent agent.”
--Rep. Mark Souter, R-Ind., US House of Representatives

“The study of biological origins is fundamentally incomplete so long as intelligent design is removed from scientific discussion. More is true: evolutionary theory cannot be adequately understood apart from intelligent design as its proper foil and counterpart.”
--William A. Dembski, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

A Priori vs. A Posteriori: The Case for Redefining Science

Critics of ID have charged that it is not science because it relies on a priori reasoning instead of a posteriori reasoning. In a posteriori reasoning, knowledge is determined solely from empirical observations. A priori knowledge, on the other hand, does not originate directly from observation, but from abstract reason. Critics say that ID’s use of a nondenominational, intelligent designer to fill in the gaps in our knowledge of the origins of life, represents an a priori jump. Since science relies on a posteriori reasoning alone, they claim that ID is not science.

This is precisely why the ID movement is more meets they eye. Part of the effort is to fundamentally redefine science to include both a priori and a posteriori explanations of natural phenomena. The wild success of ID to fill the gaps in evolution is a prime example of how a priori evidence truly works in science. While the evolutionists have tried to turn “a priori” into a dirty catchphrase, mathematics and logic are actually based on this type of reasoning. Rather than shut out explanations purely for ideological reasons, intelligent design-advocates want to encourage new and creative explanations of the phenomena that surround us in nature.

What YOU Can Do
1.Learn more
The following sites have been approved by the Committee for Intelligent Action for their fair and balanced treatment of intelligent design:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design
http://www.ncseweb.org/
http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/
nhmag.html

2.Tell Your Friends
Unfortunately, most regular people today don’t have the time or interest to make science a part of their daily lives. As a result, many people don’t fully understand ID or the debate over evolution, and cannot make informed decisions or beliefs about it. YOU must spread the word.

3.Contact Your Local School Board Representative
Take action! Warn your local school board representative about the dangers in the ID controversy so they will take the right action when the time comes. That’s what they’re there for.

For more information, contact the Committee for Intelligent Action:

intelligentaction@hotmail.com