# Intelligent Design and Origins Debate Intelligent design (ID) is the claim that features of living things and the universe are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than by unguided natural processes. Its main institutional home is Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture (CSC) in Seattle, directed by [[Topics/Intelligent Design and Origins Debate/People/Stephen C. Meyer|Stephen C. Meyer]]. Mainstream scientific bodies reject ID as science. This hub collects X posts Marshall has linked on ID and the origins debate, and the fact-checks behind them. > **How to read this.** Each post analysis checks one X post claim by claim against primary sources: court rulings, scientific-society statements, surveys, the ID groups' own pages, and peer-reviewed reviews. Both the ID case and the mainstream response are given with citations. ⚠️ marks anything uncertain or single-sourced. See [[Topics/Intelligent Design and Origins Debate/Timeline|Timeline]] for dated events and [[Topics/Intelligent Design and Origins Debate/Sources|Sources]] for every source used. ## Post analyses | Posted (CT) | Author | Post | Analysis | Verdict | |---|---|---|---|---| | Oct 24, 2026, 11:05 AM | [[Users/@StephenCMeyer/@StephenCMeyer\|@StephenCMeyer]] | ["A growing number of scientists agree…" (intelligentdesign.org)](https://x.com/StephenCMeyer/status/2114025373927141837) | [[Users/@StephenCMeyer/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - StephenCMeyer on IntelligentDesign.org and the Growing Number of Scientists Claim (2026-10-24)\|analysis]] | ❌ Misleading on its headline claim | ## Notes | Note | What it covers | Items | |---|---|---:| | [[Topics/Intelligent Design and Origins Debate/Timeline\|Timeline]] | ID milestones and the main responses, 1996–2026 | 14 | | [[Topics/Intelligent Design and Origins Debate/Sources\|Sources]] | Every source used, grouped by type | 22 | | [[Topics/Intelligent Design and Origins Debate/People/Stephen C. Meyer\|Stephen C. Meyer]] | CSC director, author of the three main ID books | — | | [[Topics/Intelligent Design and Origins Debate/People/Casey Luskin\|Casey Luskin]] | CSC associate director | — | | [[Topics/Intelligent Design and Origins Debate/People/Richard Sternberg\|Richard Sternberg]] | Editor who published Meyer's 2004 paper | — | | [[Topics/Intelligent Design and Origins Debate/People/Charles R. Marshall\|Charles R. Marshall]] | Paleontologist; *Science* reviewer of *Darwin's Doubt* | — | | [[Topics/Intelligent Design and Origins Debate/People/John E. Jones III\|John E. Jones III]] | Judge in Kitzmiller v. Dover (2005) | — | ## Key facts (checked Oct 24, 2026) - **ID's three main arguments (Meyer):** information in DNA (*Signature in the Cell*, 2009); the Cambrian explosion (*Darwin's Doubt*, 2013); cosmic fine-tuning and a beginning (*Return of the God Hypothesis*, 2021). - **Scientists' views:** in 2009, 97% of scientists surveyed said living things evolved and 87% said by natural processes ([Pew](https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2009/07/09/section-5-evolution-climate-change-and-other-issues/)). - **Scientific bodies:** AAAS board, 2002: ID lacks "credible scientific evidence" and "a scientific means of testing its claims" ([AAAS](https://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-board-resolution-intelligent-design-theory)). NAS, *Science, Evolution, and Creationism*, 2008 ([NAP](https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11876/science-evolution-and-creationism)). - **Court:** *Kitzmiller v. Dover*, Dec 20, 2005: "ID is not science" ([Justia](https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/400/707/2414073/)). - **Lists:** - Discovery Institute's *Scientific Dissent from Darwinism* has "more than a thousand" signers. It voices skepticism of mutation and selection, and its FAQ says signing does **not** endorse ID ([dissentfromdarwin.org](https://www.dissentfromdarwin.org/)). - NCSE's Project Steve, signed only by scientists named Steve, has passed 1,500 ([NCSE](https://ncse.ngo/project-steve-n-1500)). - **ID's own evidence count:** a 186-page CSC bibliography of "peer-reviewed and peer-edited" work, and "more than 250" ID 3.0 publications (CSC figures, 2024). ## Organizations - **Discovery Institute, Center for Science and Culture (CSC):** founded 1996 by Meyer and John G. West. It runs intelligentdesign.org, dissentfromdarwin.org, the *ID the Future* podcast and *Science and Culture Today*. Address: 506 2nd Ave, Ste 1700, Seattle ([discovery.org](https://www.discovery.org/id/about/)). - **National Center for Science Education (NCSE):** a pro-evolution education nonprofit in Oakland that runs Project Steve ([NCSE](https://ncse.ngo/project-steve)). - **AAAS** and the **National Academy of Sciences:** see Key facts. ## Related in this vault - Accounts: [[Users/@StephenCMeyer/@StephenCMeyer|@StephenCMeyer]] - Nearby topics: - [[Topics/Religion, Trust and Civilization/Religion, Trust and Civilization|Religion, Trust and Civilization]]: religion's social role, not ID science. - [[Topics/Consciousness, Neural Transduction and Human Origins/Consciousness, Neural Transduction and Human Origins|Consciousness, Neural Transduction and Human Origins]]: human origins from the paleoanthropology side. - Index: [[X Research]] ## In this folder <!-- folder-list:start --> <!-- generated by pubprojects_weblists.py: edits inside this region are replaced on the next run --> *No notes in this folder are published yet.* <!-- folder-list:end -->