# Intelligent Design and Origins Debate: Timeline Hub: [[Topics/Intelligent Design and Origins Debate/Intelligent Design and Origins Debate|Intelligent Design and Origins Debate]] · [[Topics/Intelligent Design and Origins Debate/Sources|Sources]] Dates without times are as published. Times are CT. | Date | Event | Source | |---|---|---| | 1996 | Stephen Meyer and John G. West found Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture | [intelligentdesign.org FAQ](https://intelligentdesign.org/faq/) | | 2001 | Discovery Institute launches *A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism*, first with "over 100" names | [dissentfromdarwin.org](https://www.dissentfromdarwin.org/) | | Oct 18, 2002 | AAAS board resolution: ID lacks "scientific warrant" for science classes | [AAAS](https://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-board-resolution-intelligent-design-theory) | | Feb 21, 2003 | NCSE starts Project Steve (list page "originally created February 21, 2003") | [NCSE list](https://ncse.ngo/list-steves) | | Aug 2004 | Meyer's paper "The origin of biological information and the higher taxonomic categories" appears in *Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.* 117(2):213–239, edited by Richard Sternberg | [discovery.org](https://www.discovery.org/id/peer-review/) | | Oct 2004 | The society's council says the paper skipped associate-editor review and "does not meet the scientific standards of the Proceedings" | [NCSE](https://ncse.ngo/bsw-strengthens-statement-repudiating-meyer-paper) | | Dec 20, 2005 | *Kitzmiller v. Dover*: Judge John E. Jones III rules ID "is not science" and the Dover ID policy unconstitutional | [Justia](https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/400/707/2414073/) | | Nov 9, 2007 | Discovery Institute launches intelligentdesign.org | [discovery.org](https://www.discovery.org/a/4294/) | | 2008 | NAS publishes *Science, Evolution, and Creationism* | [NAP](https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11876/science-evolution-and-creationism) | | Jul 9, 2009 | Pew: 97% of scientists say living things evolved; 87% by natural processes | [Pew](https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2009/07/09/section-5-evolution-climate-change-and-other-issues/) | | 2009 / 2013 / 2021 | Meyer's *Signature in the Cell*, *Darwin's Doubt* and *Return of the God Hypothesis* (HarperOne) | [stephencmeyer.org](https://stephencmeyer.org/about/) | | Sep 20, 2013 | Charles R. Marshall's *Science* review of *Darwin's Doubt*, "When Prior Belief Trumps Scholarship" | [Science](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1244515) | | Feb 12, 2025 | Project Steve reaches 1,500 Steves | [NCSE](https://ncse.ngo/project-steve-n-1500) | | Oct 24, 2026, 11:05 AM | @StephenCMeyer posts the intelligentdesign.org tagline ("A growing number of scientists agree…") | [X](https://x.com/StephenCMeyer/status/2114025373927141837) |