Talk:Intelligent design/VotingPreparations

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[Opening sentences: Intelligent design is (definition) and (god-related) or vice-versa.] [Proponents sentence: Its leading/primary proponent(s), all of whom are associated with the Discovery Institute/the Discovery institute ] believe the designer to be [the Abrahamic God/the Judeo-Christian God/the Christian God] and claim that intelligent design is a scientific theory that stands on equal footing with, or is superior to, current scientific theories regarding the evolution and origin of life.

[Second paragraph: The scientific community states unequivocally that intelligent design is not science; the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has stated that intelligent design "and other claims of supernatural intervention in the origin of life" are not science because they cannot be tested by experiment, do not generate any predictions, and propose no new hypotheses of their own. Public statements by scientists have described it as a pseudoscience or junk science, the former of which was also used by the U.S. National Science Teachers Association.]

In Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District (2005), a United States federal court ruled that a public school district requirement for science classes to teach intelligent design as an alternative to evolution was a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. United States District Judge John E. Jones III ruled that intelligent design is not science and is essentially religious in nature. During the trial, intelligent design advocate Michael Behe testified under oath that no scientific evidence in support of the intelligent design hypothesis has been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

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[Opening sentences: Intelligent design is (definition) and (god-related) or vice-versa.] Proponents sentence: Its leading/primary proponent(s), all of whom are associated with the [[Discovery Institute/the Discovery institute ] believe the designer to be [the Abrahamic God/the Judeo-Christian God/the Christian God] and claim that intelligent design is a scientific theory that stands on equal footing with, or is superior to, current scientific theories regarding the evolution and origin of life.]

[Second paragraph: The scientific community states unequivocally that intelligent design is not science; the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has stated that intelligent design "and other claims of supernatural intervention in the origin of life" are not science because they cannot be tested by experiment, do not generate any predictions, and propose no new hypotheses of their own. Public statements by scientists have described it as a pseudoscience or junk science, the former of which was also used by the U.S. National Science Teachers Association.] In 2005, intelligent design advocate Michael Behe testified under oath that no scientific evidence in support of the intelligent design hypothesis has been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.[12]

Despite the limits of the proposition, the Discovery Institute's primary members, as well as leaked internal documents, have shown a strong bias towards identifying [the Abrahamic God/the Judeo-Christian God/the Christian God] as the designer. In Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District (2005), a United States federal court ruled that a public school district requirement for science classes to teach intelligent design as an alternative to evolution was a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. United States District Judge John E. Jones III ruled that intelligent design is not science and is essentially religious in nature.

Options for opening sentences
1. Intelligent design is the proposition that certain features of the universe and of living things can be better explained by an intelligent cause than by processes such as natural selection.[1] It is a modern form of the teleological argument (an argument for the existence of God), but does not specify the nature or identity of the designer.

2. Intelligent design is a conjecture claiming that biological life on Earth, or more broadly, the universe as a whole, was created by an unspecified intelligent agent rather than being the result of natural processes. It is a modern form of the teleological argument (an argument for the existence of God), but does not specify the nature or identity of the designer.

3. "Intelligent design is a variant of a traditional argument for the existence of God that claims certain features of biological life and the universe are too complex to arise by natural processes such as those of evolution, but must have been created by an unspecified intelligent agent.

4. Intelligent design is an argument for the existence of God based on the premise that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection."

5. "Intelligent design is the proposition that certain features of biological life and the universe did not arise by natural processes, but was created by an unspecified intelligent agent, usually, but unofficially, identified as the Judeo-Christian God. It is a modern form of the teleological argument (an argument for the existence of God), but does not specify the nature or identity of the designer.

Proponents sentence
1. Its leading proponents, all of whom are affiliated with the Discovery Institute... 2. Its leading proponent, the Discovery Institute.... 3. Its primary proponents, all of whom are affiliated with the Discovery Institute 4. Its primary proponent, the Discovery Institute....

The nature of God
Should he be described as...

1. the Abrahamic God 2. the Judeo-Christian God 3. the Christian God 4. God

Second paragraph
The current version is "The scientific community states unequivocally that intelligent design is not science; the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has stated that intelligent design "and other claims of supernatural intervention in the origin of life" are not science because they cannot be tested by experiment, do not generate any predictions, and propose no new hypotheses of their own. A public statement by the U.S. National Science Teachers Association described it as a pseudoscience, other public statements have agreed or called it junk science." - can this be improved?