The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system.
The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.
I don't want to be too harsh, but there's very little evidence for 'intelligent design' or any sort of creator.
Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.
There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians of all stripes can unite.
The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question.
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
Intelligent design itself does not have any content.
By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them to it.