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Materialistic ideology has subverted the study of biological and cosmological origins so that the actual content of these sciences has become corrupted. The problem, therefore, is not merely that science is being used illegitimately to promote a materialistic worldview, but that this worldview is actively undermining scientific inquiry, leading to incorrect and unsupported conclusions about biological and cosmological origins. At the same time, intelligent design (ID) offers a promising scientific alternative to materialistic theories of biological and cosmological evolution -- an alternative that is finding increasing theoretical and empirical support. Hence, ID needs to be vigorously developed as a scientific, intellectual, and cultural project. read more...Uncommon Descent Contributors
William Dembski
Researcher, Writer
A mathematician and philosopher, William Dembski is a senior fellow with Seattle's Discovery Institute. Dr. Dembski has published articles in mathematics, philosophy, and theology journals and is the author/editor of more than ten books. In The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance Through Small Probabilities (Cambridge University Press, 1998), he examines the design argument in a post-Darwinian context and analyzes the connections linking chance, probability, and intelligent causation. His work has been cited in numerous newspaper and magazine articles, including three front page stories in the New York Times. He has made frequent television appearances, including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.Photo © László Bencze
Denyse O'Leary
Writer, Author, Blogger
Denyse O’Leary is a Toronto-based Canadian journalist (b 1950), and the author of Faith@Science (Winnipeg: J Gordon Shillingford, 2001), By Design or by Chance? (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 2004), and co-author of The Spiritual Brain (Mario Beauregard and Denyse O’Leary, San Francisco: Harper, 2007). She is a regular columnist for Canada’s ChristianWeek and a regular guest on Behind the Story (CTS). She has written for a variety of publications – trade, text, faithmags, and daily papers - focusing over the last decade on science-related issues. Her blogs are The Post-Darwinist and The Mindful Hack.Uncommon Descent Friends
Barry Arrington
Barry Arrington graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1983.. That year he passed the C.P.A exam with one of the ten highest scores among the 9,600 Texas candidates and began practicing public accounting with the international accounting firm Ernst & Whinney (n/k/a Ernst & Young). Mr. Arrington left public accounting to attend the University of Texas School of Law, from which he graduated with honors in 1986. He was admitted to the Colorado bar in 1987 and has practiced law in the Denver area since then. His law practice emphasizes school law, litigation in the state and federal courts, transactional issues, and constitutional law, especially in the area of First Amendment freedoms. He is a former member of the Colorado House of Representatives. In 1994 he was a co-founder of Jefferson Academy, one of the most successful charter schools in Colorado.
Lee Bowman
A businessman in the Phoenix area, Lee Bowman’s employment began in aerospace, and consisted of involvement in the development and production of the Minuteman Guidance system, and ‘SINS’, the ‘Ships Inertial Navigation Systems’ project at Autonetics, in Anaheim, CA. Subsequent employment was with Baxter Healthcare and the Arizona Hospital Association. On July 1, 1982 he founded Westlab Scientific, a biomedical engineering firm in Phoenix Arizona, performing field service in three states. Current projects are the anticipated establishment of Westlab Multimedia by the fall of 2007, and current and ongoing research in the areas of both natural and guided evolutionary concepts.
Salvador Cordova
Salvador Cordova is a consultant/engineer in the aerospace, defense and financial industry. He volunteers his time at various college campuses, meeting with students and professors who are interested in exploring the hypothesis of intelligent design. He has appeared on national TV, various radio shows, in newspaper articles, magazines, and books.Crandaddy
Crandaddy is an old high school nickname of a philosopher-in-training from Central Arkansas whose primary interests with regard to ID include its significance in arguments regarding the justification of belief in other minds and the constitutionality of its teaching in U.S. public schools. He defends the views that a justification of belief in the action of any other mind is dependent upon the explanatory inadequacy of chance and necessity to account for an observed pattern and that, whether science or not, ID in its most basic form is nonreligious, and its teaching to public school students is permissible under the Establishment Clause.
DaveScot
DaveScot is a retired microcomputer hardware/software design engineer. He built his first ham radio back in the 1960's and designed his last computer at Dell in 1999 before he got out of the rat race. His employers have included Intel and Microsoft doing the usual things plus things as off the wall as developing O/S software for personal robots at Nolan Bushnell's company "Androbot" in 1981. Last but not least Dave was a USMC sergeant in mid-1970's working in a fighter jet group repairing aviation related electronic equipment. He has loved all the hard sciences all his life, is a convinced agnostic, and has been engaged in the ID debate for a few years.