Intelligent Design Quotes

• This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

  Isaac Newton

  Beautiful, God, Powerful

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)”, p.1023, Delphi Classics

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• Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Intelligent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think people who believe that life emerged naturalistically need to have a great deal more faith than people who reasonably infer that there's an Intelligent Designer.

  Lee Strobel

  Believe, Intelligent, Thinking

  Lee Strobel (2009). “The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God”, p.51, Harper Collins

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• There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.

  Michele Bachmann

  Believe, Intelligent, Design

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. June 24, 2011.

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• 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.

  William A. Dembski

  Intelligent, Design, Fundamentals

  William A. Dembski (2004). “The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design”, Intervarsity Press

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• 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.

  William A. Dembski

  Religious, Philosophical, Intelligent

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• 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.

  William A. Dembski

  Atheist, Intelligent, Design

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• There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place in a science course.

  David Hillis

  Religious, Intelligent, Design

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• I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God.

  William A. Dembski

  Christian, Believe, Intelligent

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• I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for ‘[intelligent] design.’ If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't working very well!

  Irven DeVore

  Intelligent, Design, Gone

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• Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.

  William A. Dembski

  Intelligent, Design, Possibility

  "Defeating Darwinism in Our Culture" panel discussion, National Religious Broadcasters meeting, Anaheim, February 06, 2000. "Why Darwin Matters". Book by Michael Shermer, 2006.

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• Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.

  John Marburger

  Intelligent, Design, Religion

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• The first point one has to get straight in discussions like this, is that ID is not the opposite of evolution. Rather, it is the opposite of Darwinism, which says life evolved by an utterly unguided, undirected mechanism. If god directed the process of evolution, or rigged the universe to produce complex life, then that is not Darwinism - it is intelligent design.

  Michael Behe

  Intelligent, Opposites, Design

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• I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

  Mark Lawrence

  Intelligent, Men, Design

  Mark Lawrence (2014). “Prince of Fools”, p.155, Penguin

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• I say the Intelligent Design-evolution debate misses the point. It trivializes God and it trivializes science. The universe is like the hand of God. The world is God's body.

  Michael Dowd

  Intelligent, Hands, Design

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• Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Philosophy, Smart, Ignorance

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.361, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.

  Lee Strobel

  Believe, Intelligent, Thinking

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• For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are so beautiful and elegant and so apparently purposeful, they could only have been made by an intelligent designer. But [Charles] Darwin provided a simpler explanation. His way is a gradual, incremental improvement starting from very simple beginnings and working up step by tiny incremental step to more complexity, more elegance, more adaptive perfection.

  Richard Dawkins

  Beautiful, Powerful, Intelligent

  Source: inters.org

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• Thus, in its relation to Christianity, intelligent design should be viewed as a ground-clearing operation that gets rid of the intellectual rubbish that for generations has kept Christianity from receiving serious consideration.

  William A. Dembski

  Intelligent, Design, Intellectual

  "Intelligent Design's Contribution To The Debate Over Evolution: A Reply To Henry Morris". billdembski.com. February 01, 2005.

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• It's high time to rescue "intelligent design" from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either biology or the Bible, and by asking them honestly, without foregone conclusions, science could take a huge leap forward.

  Deepak Chopra

  Intelligent, Design, Asking

  "Intelligent Design Without the Bible". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2005.

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• This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Philosophy, Intelligent, Design

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• The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Intelligent, Design, Dover

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• Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

  William A. Dembski

  Intelligent, Design, Information

  "Signs of intelligence: A primer on the discernment of intelligent design". Touchstone Magazine 12 (4), July/August, 1999.

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• The Intelligent Design movement starts with the recognition that "In the beginning was the Word," and "In the beginning God created." Establishing that point isn't enough, but it is absolutely essential to the rest of the gospel message.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Intelligent, Design, Essentials

  "Creation, Evolution, & Modern Science: Probing the Headlines that Impact Your Family". Book by Raymond G. Bohlin, 2000.

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• Most scientists who are religious look for God in what science does understand and has explained. So the way in which my view is different from the creationists or intelligent design proponents is that I find knowledge a compelling reason to believe in God. They find ignorance a compelling reason to believe in God.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Religious, Believe, Ignorance

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