Is Intelligent Design Dead?
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Is ID fading? I suspect people who think so need to take off their rose-tinted specs.
Most of the folks who take it seriously don't know the difference between a hypothesis and a hypotenuse. They aren't going to give up clutching desperately to something that tells them that a vast and ancient cosmos gives a damn.
That ID hasn't gained academic or scholarly credibility is no surprise. Wishful thinking isn't verifiable.
The Templeton Foundation, a major supporter of projects seeking to reconcile science and religion, says that after providing a few grants for conferences and courses to debate intelligent design, they asked proponents to submit proposals for actual research.
“They never came in,” said Charles L. Harper Jr., senior vice president at the Templeton Foundation, who said that while he was skeptical from the beginning, other foundation officials were initially intrigued and later grew disillusioned.
“From the point of view of rigor and intellectual seriousness, the intelligent design people don't come out very well in our world of scientific review,” he said.
Intelligent Design Might Be Meeting Its Maker
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