Apples, Oranges and Portraits of the ID Movement

ISBN:

0954-4194

URL:

http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=19211361&site=ehost-live

Keywords:

RELIGION & science; THEOLOGY; INTELLIGENT design (Teleology)

Abstract:

During the past fifteen years North America has seen the rise of a movement known by the label, 'Intelligent Design'. This ID movement is characterised by several factors: scientific claims, rhetorical strategies, political goals and religious motivations. In a recent essay (S&CB 15:2, 2003) my assessment of the ID movement focused mostly on the rhetorical strategies and scientific claims made by leading ID advocates, principally by theorist William A. Dembski. Arthur Jones and David Tyler have offered a very different portrait of ID and charge that what I presented was a highly distorted picture of ID that misrepresented its leaders. In this response I shall explore some of the reasons for the vivid contrast between our two portraits of the ID movement in North America.

Notes:

GE: NORTH America