Barbarian
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KEVIN HARRIS: Did you have a chance to ask him about the state of the union as far as the intelligent design movement?
DR. CRAIG: Yeah, I actually did have a chance to talk with Steve one afternoon privately. I said to him that I had the impression that a few years ago the people involved in the intelligent design movement were rather crestfallen and felt that the movement had kind of stalled out and failed to achieve the objectives that, say, a Philip Johnson had envisioned for it. I asked him what the mood was these days. He said following the Dover case with the Supreme Court . . . the intelligent design movement did not support the attempt to teach intelligent design in the schools – they thought that that was a maverick move that was unwise and imprudent. They didn’t support it, but nevertheless they suffered the consequences of that negative Supreme Court verdict that intelligent design constituted religion and so couldn’t be taught in American public schools. He said that really did take the wind out of their sails for a time. But he said since then they have really regrouped. There have been a number of new people who have been involved in the movement – some very sharp young biologists. He said everywhere they go they find among the younger faculty tremendous interest in intelligent design and skepticism about Darwinian orthodoxy and chemical origin-of-life theories and things of this sort.[1] So he seemed to say that the movement is going ahead again at full-steam. (bolding mine)
reasonablefaith.org/whatever-happened-to-intelligent-design#ixzz3sEGWsNEW
I heard the same story when I was an undergraduate, about 50 years ago. It's always "more and more young scientists are on our side" but somehow, nothing ever comes of it. Each time creationism has a disaster, they go to ground for a bit, and come back with a new name.
Can't wait to see what the next one will be.
Adventism => Flood Geology => Creation Science => Intelligent Design => ?
DR. CRAIG: Yeah, I actually did have a chance to talk with Steve one afternoon privately. I said to him that I had the impression that a few years ago the people involved in the intelligent design movement were rather crestfallen and felt that the movement had kind of stalled out and failed to achieve the objectives that, say, a Philip Johnson had envisioned for it. I asked him what the mood was these days. He said following the Dover case with the Supreme Court . . . the intelligent design movement did not support the attempt to teach intelligent design in the schools – they thought that that was a maverick move that was unwise and imprudent. They didn’t support it, but nevertheless they suffered the consequences of that negative Supreme Court verdict that intelligent design constituted religion and so couldn’t be taught in American public schools. He said that really did take the wind out of their sails for a time. But he said since then they have really regrouped. There have been a number of new people who have been involved in the movement – some very sharp young biologists. He said everywhere they go they find among the younger faculty tremendous interest in intelligent design and skepticism about Darwinian orthodoxy and chemical origin-of-life theories and things of this sort.[1] So he seemed to say that the movement is going ahead again at full-steam. (bolding mine)
reasonablefaith.org/whatever-happened-to-intelligent-design#ixzz3sEGWsNEW
I heard the same story when I was an undergraduate, about 50 years ago. It's always "more and more young scientists are on our side" but somehow, nothing ever comes of it. Each time creationism has a disaster, they go to ground for a bit, and come back with a new name.
Can't wait to see what the next one will be.
Adventism => Flood Geology => Creation Science => Intelligent Design => ?
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