Design Theorists Are No Friends

How A Designer Gets From Thought To Thing Is, At Least In Broad Strokes, Straightforward: (1) A Designer Conceives A Purpose. (2) To Accomplish That Purpose, The Designer Forms A Plan. (3) To Execute The Plan, The Designer Specifies Building Materials And Assembly Instructions. (4) Finally, The Designer Or Some Surrogate Applies The Assembly Instructions To The Building Materials. What Emerges Is A Designed Object, And The Designer Is Successful To The Degree That The Object Fulfills The Designer's Purpose.

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.

The Problem With Merely Writing So That You Can Be Understood Is That The Wrong People, In Advancing Their Agendas, Are Only Too Ready To Misunderstand You. Writing So That You Cannot Be Misunderstood Anticipates And Preempts Those Who Would Willfully Distort What You Are Trying To Say.

This Is Really An Opportunity To Mobilize A New Generation Of Scholars And Pastors Not Just To Equip The Saints But Also To Engage The Culture And Reclaim It For Christ. That's Really What Is Driving Me.

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.