Casey Luskin

From 2016 until his tragic death in 2025, Bechly made many important contributions to ID literature on the topic of fossil explosions in the history of life.

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I started with a brief explanation of what ID theory is and how it works and then went through about a dozen examples of ID research, divided into six categories:

It’s quite a chain of errors, from the ACLU to Judge Jones to C. W. Howell. Each makes it worse than the one before.

As I noted yesterday , a book from New York University Press, Designer Science , by Dr. C. W. Howell, purports to provide a “full” history of the intelligent design movement.

As author C. W. Howell puts it, various ID proponents have sometimes committed the thought crime of “doubting the science consensus outside evolution.”

Now I want to put the effort in context. One positive aspect: Howell rightly observes that some other would-be histories of ID, especially those by written by critics, are “polemical” and “activist” (p. 7). The

Editor's note : C. W. Howell's Designer Science has been pulled by its publisher, NYU Press. See, “ Scholarship Hits the Fan: Designer Science

I often liken ID's growth to a snowball. Snowballs start small. But they grow steadily over time, and after a while they really start to get large and pick up speed. This is an accurate analogy for ID's growth. That growth has been steady over time — but we have seen slight upticks and downticks in that growth based upon public events, such as the publication of major ID books, or major ID media events like

You are warmly invited to an evening lecture and discussion on “Science & Faith: Friends or Foes?” The event will explore the relationship between Christian faith and natural science. Dr. Casey Luskin (a scientist) and Dr. Steve Dilley