| Cheering on Intelligent Design from the Sidelines by Warren Krug (March/April, 2007) |
When we first reported on the Intelligent Design movement back in 2001, we mentioned a three-phase
program which ID backers had adopted and which they hoped would eventually knock Charles Darwin off his
lofty perch.
We are four years now into Phase 3. If ID’s plans are going as its proponents had wanted, we should at this
time be seeing the theory of evolution beginning to topple. Is that what we’re seeing?
Unfortunately, most TV nature shows still portray evolution as an established fact. Most science textbooks
used in public schools and universities, and probably even most private schools, still present evolution as a
theory beyond reproach.
The scientific establishment is still firmly in the hands of Darwinists. Judges continue to rule against
Intelligent Design and creationism being allowed in public school classrooms.
Truthfully, some minor cracks in the rock of evolution can be seen from time to time. Last month in the
inaugural issue of the LSI Bulletin, we offered some evidence that one bastion of evolution orthodoxy,
Discover magazine, is lately showing a bit more respect for intelligent designers and creationists.
Yet, for all the scores of books the Intelligent Design movement is currently having published, on the surface
at least ID’s backers are not making a great deal of headway.
Now we can cheer them on but not join them. Why not join them? ID’s scientists are not as a rule biblical
creationists.
Kenneth Pope, author of Reclaiming Science from Darwinism, copyright 2006, mentions all the reasons why
the world is far too complex to have arisen by chance. Yet he felt it necessary to briefly attack young-
earthers.
Geneticist and anti-atheist Francis Collins, supposedly an evangelical Christian who we favorably mentioned
in this column two months ago evidently isn’t “evangelical” enough. In a February Discover interview, he
admitted to being a theistic evolutionist.
Meanwhile, we repeat what we said in 2001. If ID succeeds someday in helping knock down the evolution
monolith, Christians ought to be prepared to step in and identify the true Designer. Who else will? LSI
—Warren Krug
program which ID backers had adopted and which they hoped would eventually knock Charles Darwin off his
lofty perch.
We are four years now into Phase 3. If ID’s plans are going as its proponents had wanted, we should at this
time be seeing the theory of evolution beginning to topple. Is that what we’re seeing?
Unfortunately, most TV nature shows still portray evolution as an established fact. Most science textbooks
used in public schools and universities, and probably even most private schools, still present evolution as a
theory beyond reproach.
The scientific establishment is still firmly in the hands of Darwinists. Judges continue to rule against
Intelligent Design and creationism being allowed in public school classrooms.
Truthfully, some minor cracks in the rock of evolution can be seen from time to time. Last month in the
inaugural issue of the LSI Bulletin, we offered some evidence that one bastion of evolution orthodoxy,
Discover magazine, is lately showing a bit more respect for intelligent designers and creationists.
Yet, for all the scores of books the Intelligent Design movement is currently having published, on the surface
at least ID’s backers are not making a great deal of headway.
Now we can cheer them on but not join them. Why not join them? ID’s scientists are not as a rule biblical
creationists.
Kenneth Pope, author of Reclaiming Science from Darwinism, copyright 2006, mentions all the reasons why
the world is far too complex to have arisen by chance. Yet he felt it necessary to briefly attack young-
earthers.
Geneticist and anti-atheist Francis Collins, supposedly an evangelical Christian who we favorably mentioned
in this column two months ago evidently isn’t “evangelical” enough. In a February Discover interview, he
admitted to being a theistic evolutionist.
Meanwhile, we repeat what we said in 2001. If ID succeeds someday in helping knock down the evolution
monolith, Christians ought to be prepared to step in and identify the true Designer. Who else will? LSI
—Warren Krug