This webpage is designed to give brief exposure to a few of the important players and accomplishments in Intelligent Design (ID) as of 2019. Over the past 20 or so years, the ID movement has made great progress in a variety of scientific areas, including biochemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and information theory, such that it has essentially falsified important tenets of Neo-Darwinism.
What Is Intelligent Design?
The Discovery Institute in Seattle WA has assembled a brief 20-page summary of the tenets of Intelligent Design, which might be a useful read for those unfamiliar with the entire concept:
A Slightly Technical Introduction to Intelligent Design
Recent Intelligent Design Presentations
The first video entails Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institute interviewing two ID people – Stephen Meyer and David Berlinski – plus Yale Math/Computer Science professor David Gelernter, who has recently “given up on Darwin.”
Mathematical Challenges to Darwin’s Theory of Evolution with Berlinski, Meyer, and Gelernter (57:40)
(From YouTube) Based on new evidence and knowledge that functioning proteins are extremely rare, should Darwin’s theory of evolution be dismissed, dissected, developed or replaced with a theory of intelligent design?
Has Darwinism really failed? Peter Robinson discusses it with David Berlinski, David Gelernter, and Stephen Meyer, who have raised doubts about Darwin’s theory in their two books and essay, respectively The Deniable Darwin, Darwin’s Doubt, and “Giving Up Darwin” (published in the Claremont Review of Books).
The second and third videos involve Synthetic Organic Chemist James Tour, of the Rice Institute. He is one of the pioneers in the development of Nanotechnology, with a large research group, many hundreds of published papers, and a hundred or so patents; one of the brightest minds around. Tour is a devout Christian believer, from a Jewish background. Not the kind of person one would want to argue with!
James Tour – The Mystery of the Origin of Life (58:24)
A detailed and scathing review of Origin of Life studies, delivered at the Discovery Institute Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, in January 2019.
James Tour – The Origin of Life Has Not Been Explained (22:32)
(From YouTube) In this bonus interview footage from Science Uprising, synthetic organic chemist James Tour from Rice University discusses the serious challenges faced by current origin of life research.
The final video in this introductory sample is an interview of Stephen Meyer by author and talk show host Eric Metaxas. “The Return of the God Hypothesis” video is worth the full hour and a quarter. Meyer’s book on this topic won’t come out until April 2020. In this video, among many other things he addresses the most common God-avoidance arguments from materialists.
Stephen Meyer – The Return of the God Hypothesis (1:11:24)
(From Youtube) Eric Metaxas interviews Stephen C. Meyer about the ultimate mystery of the universe as drawn from recent scientific discoveries in physics, cosmology, and biology.
The interview took place at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, sponsored by the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, in January 2019.
Stephen Meyer has a new book coming out in 2020 entitled, “The Return of the God Hypothesis: Compelling Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God”.
An additional useful Intelligent Design website: