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Key Bible Verse: Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you know so much (Job 38:4).Job 38:5-38

Intelligent design is a full-fledged scientific theory, distinguishing it from a long line of design arguments by philosophers and theologians, traditionally called natural theology. It requires no leap of faith. This is because the related concepts of specified complexity and irreducible complexity [explained in the next readings] render intelligent causes empirically detectable. Intelligent design (ID) takes a long-standing philosophical intuition and cashes it out as a scientific research program. It builds on advances in fields such as probability theory, computer science, molecular biology, and philosophy of science, to demonstrate this rigorously. According to ID, the world contains events, objects, and structures that go beyond what can be explained by undirected natural causes. They can be adequately explained only by recourse to intelligent causes.

[Debates in the media as to whether intelligent design should be taught in public schools as an alternative to the theory of evolution underscore a shifting landscape.] Is ID becoming an effective conceptual tool for investigating and understanding the natural world? That is now the big question confronting science.

—William Dembski in The Design Revolution

My Response: Do I see faith and science as in conflict or complementary?

Adapted from The Design Revolution (InterVarsity, 2004) by permission.

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Prayer for the Week

Thank You, Lord, for mounting evidence that only intelligent design can account for the origins of our universe.

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