A11 SCIENCE/HEALTH Intelligent Design Proponents The proponents of intelligent design, a school of thought that some have argued should be taught alongside evolution in the nation's schools, say that the complexity and diversity of life go beyond what evolution can explain.
It is enough to turn a Darwinian diehard into a proponent of intelligent design.
She said she would not interview a proponent of intelligent design or a strident atheist, believing such guests would only polarize the discussion, though she has done shows about torture and the Sunni-Shiite divide within Islam.
Meanwhile, Dr. Sloan angered faculty with his leadership style, and he hired William A. Dembski, a proponent of intelligent design who found little favor with the school's science departments (and has since left).
"There is a legitimate intellectual project here," said Dr. William Dembski, a leading proponent of intelligent design who has a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Chicago and who is on the faculty at Baylor, which receives a small part of its financing from the Texas Baptist Convention.
Mr. Jindal is a technocrat and a Roman Catholic convert, a policy aficionado well-versed in free-market solutions to the crisis in health insurance and a proponent of "intelligent design" as an alternative theory to evolution, suggesting it may be appropriate in school science classes.
The Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think tank, is a proponent of Intelligent Design.
Phillip Johnson, the best-known proponent of intelligent design at the turn of the millennium (Eldredge 2000), reveals the fears that drive the thinking of many intelligent designers and 'scientific creationists'.
The burden is shifted to the proponent of intelligent design to make sense of the many heritable health problems and other problems in gene expression that lead to human disease.
"The Dover decision is an attempt by an activist federal judge to stop the spread of a scientific idea and even to prevent criticism of Darwinian evolution through government-imposed censorship rather than open debate, and it won't work," says John West of the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute, a Seattle, Washington-based proponent of intelligent design.
