[These complex systems are] always associated with design, ... Darwin's Black Box. |
Although I find it congenial to think that it's God, others might prefer to think it's an alien — or who knows? An angel, or some satanic force, some new age power. |
are unequivocal in their support of evolutionary theory. |
Because of the immense publicity that's mushroomed around this issue in the past six months, more people are getting emotional about the topic, ... And it's generally not on my side. |
Because of the immense publicity that's mushroomed around this issue in the past six months, more people are getting emotional about the topic. And it's generally not on my side. |
Creationism is a theological concept but intelligent design is a scientific theory. One can be a creationist without any physical evidence. That's 180 degrees different from intelligent design. |
Evolution no longer looks like a random process to me; it looks like a set-up job. My sense is that we'll discover the means to detect the design scientifically. |
Evolution: A Theory in Crisis. |
I advocated none of those ideas, |
I advocated none of those ideas. I take this as a political statement unsupported by any references. |
I'll wait and see. |
Intelligent design relies on physical, empirical, observable evidence from nature plus logical inferences. |
Intelligent design requires no tenet of any specific religion. It does not rely on religious texts, messages from religious leaders or any such thing. |
It was a real disappointment. It's hard to say this chills the atmosphere, because if you're publicly known as an ID supporter, you can already kiss your tenure chances goodbye. It doesn't help. |
it's dangerous to your career to be identified as an ID proponent. |