RufusAtticus

More interesting email:

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From "Signs of Intelligence: Understanding Intelligent Design" edited
by William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner:

Jay Wesley Richards of the Discovery Institute (on page 59):

"For more than a century we have heard that scientific progress has made Christian belief obsolete. Given the cultural prestige of science, this claim has prevented many from considering the Christian faith. If intelligent design theory exposes the inadequacy of materialistic explanations in the natural sciences, it will deflate this assertion, and could contribute to a renewal of Christian belief in the twenty-first century. This would be its most significant apologetic contribution."

And William Dembski, who is also from the Discovery Institute {on page 192):

"The world is a mirror representing the divine life. The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature of the physical reality. Indeed, intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory."

bluefugue

Or Paley's Watchmaker argument dressed up with fancy tech-talk.

Quetzal

Rufus: Doesn't that pretty much put the final nail in the (specious) "ID isn't religious" argument? I think sending a copy of those documents to any school board considering "equal time" laws should receive it - with a pointed reminder that ID is now - by it's own admission - illegal to teach in schools.