The real source of the antipathy and vitriol directed toward the ID movement is Fear Of Exposure.
The fight against academic freedom is rooted in the worry that Darwinism’s weakness will be revealed…
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The teaching of evolution today in public schools is frozen in the past where it is based largely on a mid-20th century understanding of biology. Research in the biological sciences has moved far beyond that understanding because of the hopeless inability of Darwinian principles to explain the complexity observed in living things.
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There is a revolution under way in the biological sciences. A whole new field of biology called “Systems Biology” has emerged during the past 10 or 15 years. This revolution is just as profound for the biological sciences today as the transition in physics was from classical physics to quantum physics and relativity in the early part of the 20th century.
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In this exciting new field, research is guided not by Darwinian principles but by design principles because design principles are needed to explain design-like features.