"Intelligent Design Is Not Creationism"
See also: Neo-creationismOne of the principal rationales behind intelligent design's neo-creationist strategy is to separate intelligent design from previous, more explicitly religious, forms of creationism, and the legal defeats that prohibit them from public school science classrooms. For this reason, the Discovery Institute (and its supporters) make frequent and vehement denials of any connection between intelligent design and creationism. These denials are at times vituperative, for example:
still can't understand the obvious differences between creationism and intelligent design, continually conflating the two and looking like an ill-informed crank.
— Robert Crowther, Discovery Institute, Is It Really Intelligent Design that has the Great Derb Worried?, Evolution News & Views
However this assertion has been refuted both in court and academia. In Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District Judge John E. Jones III found that "the overwhelming evidence at trial established that intelligent design is a religious view, a mere re-labeling of creationism, and not a scientific theory." Numerous books have been written by prominent academics documenting intelligent design as a form of creationism, e.g.:
- Creationism's Trojan Horse - The Wedge of Intelligent Design by Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross
- The Creationists, From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design by Ronald Numbers
- Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism by Robert T. Pennock
Read more about this topic: Discovery Institute Intelligent Design Campaigns
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