Nobody has time to sift through all the creation - evolution websites on the internet, so we figured we'd save you some surf time by giving each of our links a rating. While the ratings are NOT IDEA's opinion of the validity of the arguments, focus, or conclusions found at a particular site, they are our best measurement of the amount of easy-to-access "useful" material the site has.
"ARN" is "a non-profit ... organization dedicated to providing accessible information on science, technology and society." The site contains a gaggle of Intelligent Design resources including info from well known authors and the Origins and Design Journal .
Does God Exist is a bi-monthly journal which tends to have lots of articles related to Intelligent Design (from a pro-Intelligent Design perspective). The journal also deals with many other subjects such as The problem of human suffering and other philosophical and moral issues.
Johnson is a law professor at UC Berkeley and is considered by many to be the leader of the "Intelligent Design Movement." The site contains online articles and personal information.
William Dembski holds a PhD in Math and Philosophy as well as a having a Masters in Divinity and is the author of The Design Inference which Behe says, "constructs the formal logical arguments necessary for rigorous evaluation of design hypotheses." The site has info about his other books and links to many online articles.
This site houses a very large number of archived articles and other works by William Dembski. The site has numerous articles related to the detection of design and answering objection to intelligent design theory, making it a good place to start if you want to learn about the theory of intelligent design.
"Mere Creation" is a conference devoted to discussing Intelligent Design theory. The site contains a general overview , lectures , abstracts , and photos from the conference.
This site is dedicated to the intellectual defense of Christianity, but we place its link here because of its section about origins--the Darwinism Tutorial . Skeptical ? Then they've even got a section just for you !
An Australian man who is very interested in the creation/evolution debate, has compiled an incredible number of internet links related to Phillip Johnson, most of which are highly related to "Intelligent Design". Be sure to also visit his Creation/Evolution quotes .
Created by Intelligent Design afficionado, Mike Gene, this site aims to be "a gateway to various thoughts (mostly mine) on Origins and Intelligent Design" and "to simply demonstrate that there is more than one way to reasonably, albeit unconventionally, interpret Origin Events in the living world." See Mike Gene's extensive posts to other ID lists (such as ARN) .
This site's mission is "To promote evidence-based science education with regard to the origin of the universe and of life and its diversity. ... [and] [t]o enhance public awareness of the evidence of intelligent design in the universe and living systems." Check out their IDnet Symposium " Darwin, Design and Democracy: Teaching the Evidence in Science Education " on Saturday July 15th.
T he Day Star Network is devoted to "Exploring and debating the ultimate questions raised by science" and contains various interviews with scientists regarding origins. See its Interviews with famous physicists .
Hosted by Leadership University , this intelligent design page has links to many articles written by well known names in the intelligent design movement, as well as a brief explanation of intelligent design theory.
Creationdigest.com is managed by Warren L. Johns, Esq., who has written books on law and the life of Charles Darwin. This website has a somewhat young earth Biblical creationist slant, however it claims it "articulates the worldview that life exists as a result of 'intelligent design' put in place by the miraculous power of an all-powerful, all-loving, all-wise God---the Designer and Creator of life and the author of all true science." See their Bookshelf , an article on Stasis , and an interview with biologist Duane Schmidt , author of " And God Created Darwin ". They also send out a Free Newsletter .
This site doesn't have a lot on it yet, but it appears that sometime soon it might have a large number of resources including, featured authors, books, and examples of irreducible complexity!
This neutral website states, "This site aims at a careful and fair evaluation of the arguments against evolution and Darwinism. Although I accept evolution as a working theory, this site is neither an 'evolution propaganda' site, because propaganda implies silence about difficulties and alternatives, nor a 'debunking' site, because debunking means the critics are ignorant and wrong. Many evolutionary biologists are ignorant of well-informed criticism. By reading the critics, I learned illuminating things about the theory of evolution I never could have learned from the textbooks alone. Since Darwinism is a biological theory, the emphasis of this site is on biological aspects, not religion, education or law." It sticks to its neutrality and has extensive reviews of MANY pro and anti intelligent design and creaton-evolution oriented books.
This site is a critique of the work of William Dembski, author of The Design Inference and Intelligent Design. Wesley Elsberry , a graduate student at Texas A&M Unviersity, created the site aiming it to be "a scholarly resource where the interested researcher can learn about not only William Dembski's ideas, but also about the significant criticisms which have been made concerning those ideas."
This website aims to be an "unbiased archive where Youth from all perspectives can "come and present their thoughts regarding the origins and evolutionary development by uniformitarian [mainstream] and/or catastrophic means."
This essay by evolutionary biologist Massimo Pigliucci critiques some of the fundamental concepts behidn intelligent design theory, such as Behe's idea of "irreducible complexity," (IC) and Dembski's "specified complexity" (SC). The essay gives alternative explanations for the origin of IC and SC, from a non-intelligent design perspective.
The Boston Review is a neutral "political and literary forum" which contains essays and articles written by noteworthy authors. Their evolution page contains articles by many big names on both sides of the creation - evolution issue.
Scientific American is a journal of popular technical science. This review, by Eugene C. Scott, exective director of the National Center for Science Education , is of the book "Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism" by Robert T. Pennock.
A part of the " Answers in Action website ", this is a dialogue between 2 people (both pro and con ) over Behe's mousetrap analogy and intelligent design.
Talk.Origins is a site promoting naturalism and arguing against Young Earth Creationism and Intelligent Design. This FAQ contains a critique of Intelligent Design theory and links to other anti-Intelligent Design sites.
"NCSE" is a site devoted to "working to defend the teaching of evolution against sectarian attack." This link contains a critique of Intelligent Design. Their site also contains some links to online evolution exhibits .
"NCSE" is a site devoted to "working to defend the teaching of evolution against sectarian attack." This link contains a critique of Phillip Johnson's book, Darwin on Trial . Their site also contains some links to online evolution exhibits .
Part of the junk science website, this page sees Intelligent Design as a "threat to science education" and urges the reader to "take this threat seriously and meet it head on".
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his site is meant to provide links to people exploring the creation - evolution issue and "to gather both sides to a debate about creationism and evolution" so "both sides to learn of eachother and to argue against eachother" (sic).
Pro-Creationism Oriented Websites:
Our Pro-Creationism links contain an IDEA link rating as well as a short description of each link's "Creation Evolution Stance."
Creation-Evolution Stance: Old Earth Creationism . Founded in 1986 by Dr. Hugh Ross, "RTB" is dedicated to "Remove the doubts of skeptics, Strengthen the faith of believers, [and] Demonstrate that science and the Bible complement one another." This site tends to focus on astronomical arguments for God and Christianity.
Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism . Founded and directed by Ken Ham, "AIG" is dedicated to "equip[ing] the Church to defend the authority and accuracy of the Bible from the very first verse, thereby enabling it to more effectively present the Gospel in our increasingly secular, evolutionary society."
Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism . "ICR" was founded in 1970 by Henry Morris, and is located near San Diego in Santee. They have a large number of online " Impact Articles ".
Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism . This site is run by the South Bay Creation Science organization and has detailed explanations of the Noachian Flood and many other topics.
Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism . Founded in 1963 by 10 scientists, "CRS" is "a scientific society with worldwide membership, [which] is recognized internationally for its firm commitment to scientific special creation.
Creation-Evolution Stance: Old Earth Creationism . This site contains many great articles relating to both old and young earth creationist as well as evolutionist websites.
Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism . This site attempts to emulate the Talk.Origins site, and it also contains many links related to Intelligent Design.
Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism . Creation Science of Saskatchewan Inc. is an organization which distributes much young-earth creationist material in Canada.
Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism . Founded by Dr. Walt Brown, "CSC" describes itself as a, "non-profit organization ... dedicated to origins research.
Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism . Makes the statement that, "Creation Science is simply the practice of science with the assumption andacknowledgement that there is a creator God, versus the now standard operating assumption of naturalism (that nature is "all there is)."
Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism . Statement: "The Center's primary objective has been to change the manner in which the public schools teach about evolutionary theories." Be sure to check out the Handy Dandy Evolution Refuter
Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism . This site takes a while to load but has a huge volume of information about other creationist organizations, links, and literature.
Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism . This website has discussions of the Solar System , biology , philosophy, as well as a rebuttal section from evolutionists .
Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism . Contains many articles about many evolution and creation topics, with a focus on Young Earth Creationism.
Though it is unclear who this site belongs to or what exactly they believe, it does contains some ideas related to Intelligent Design theory and references to various works by well known Intelligent Design enthusiasts.
Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism . Contains many articles about evolution and creation topics and a "Who's Who" FAQ on the creation evolution issue.
Creation-Evolution Stance: Young Earth Creationism . This new San Diego area - run website is largely graphics based, with a "Flash" introduction and images related to Biblical creation . It also has links .
Creation-Evolution Stance: Naturalism . This unofficial site is devoted to Zoology Professor Richard Dawkins, and contains much personal information and links to online articles by Dawkins, as well as many other links to sites taking an evolutionary point of view.
Creation-Evolution Stance: Naturalism . Talk.Origins is a "Usenet newsgroup devoted to the discussion and debate of biological and physical origins." The site has many resources and is geared to argue against Creationism, particularly Young Earth Creationism. However many of their faq's are quite informative and unbiased in nature (though others aren't so unbiased). It also has a great list of links to other creation or evolution sites .
Creation-Evolution Stance: Naturalism . TalkDesign is "a sub-site of TalkOrigins.org " and is "dedicated to: Assessing the claims of the Intelligent Design movement from the perspective of mainstream science; Addressing the wider political, cultural, philosophical, moral, religious, and educational issues that have inspired the ID movement; [and] Providing an archive of materials that critically examine the scientific claims of the ID movement."
Creation-Evolution Stance: not creationism . Created by Lenny Flank, this pro-evolution site has a lot of resources, and devotes much of its space to critiquing young-earth creationist arguments. although I'm not sure how useful the site is because it devotes a lot of space to promoting the false stereotype that creationists are uneducated lying people trying to promote religion, it does have many resources. Be sure to check out their, " Suggested reading list .
Creation-Evolution Stance: Naturalism . "NCSE" is a site devoted to "working to defend the teaching of evolution against sectarian attack." Their site also contains some links to online evolution exhibits.
Creation-Evolution Stance: Naturalism . This page contains commentary from an evolutionist perspective on a great number of commonly encountered issues in creation vs. evolution.
Creation-Evolution Stance: Naturalism . This page desires to see "Science Presented as an Integrated Monistic Worldview" and contains links to numerous articles relating to science and religion.
Creation-Evolution Stance: Eastern Theistic / Evolution . This website is devoted to a book "The Wonder of the World" by Roy Abraham Varghese, panelist at the Parliament of World Religions held in Chicago. The book aims to be a "a sensitive, profound and clear discussion of the important issues of our universe and our existence, including questions, answers, and uncertainties."
