The misguided attack on methodological naturalism

For the Rock Record: Geologists on Intelligent Design

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 117-140

  Miller, Keith B ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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1. This wording from the 1999 Kansas Science Standards Draft 5 (first paragraph under "Nature of Science" section) by the Science Standards Committee was restored to the "Nature of Science" section in the science standards by the newly elected majority of the Kansas Board of Education in February 13, 2007.
2. These standards can be downloaded from the Kansas Department of Education Web site, www.ksde.org.
3. J. Calvert's testimony at the Kansas State Board of Education public forum, July 13, 1999.
4. A complete record of his comments is archived on the Intelligent Design Network's Web site, www.intelligentdesignnetwork.org/7139rem.htm.
5. J. Sjogren, 2000, Idnet Urges Kansas School Boards to Reject National Science Standards Proposed by Kansas Citizens for Science, Intelligent Design Network press release, June 8, www.intelligentdesignnetwork.org/press_releases.htm.
6. Proposed Revisions to Kansas Science Standards Draft 2 with Explanations, 2005, Resources, March 29, www.kcfs.org/kcfsnews. Referred to as the "Minority Report."
7. J. E. Jones III, 2005, Memorandum Opinion, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, case 4:04-cv-02688 JEJ, document 342, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, December 20, www.pamd.uscourts.gov/kitzmiller/kitzmiller_342 .pdf, p. 136.
8. J. Calvert, 2005, Dover Court Establishes State Materialism, Intelligent Design Network press release, December 21, www.intelligentdesignnetwork.org/press_releases.htm.
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27. Ronald Numbers indicates that deVries thought that he had coined the term.
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31. P. E. Johnson, 1999, Response to Denis O. Lamoureux, pp. 49-56.
32. P. E. Johnson and D. O. Lamoureux, eds., Darwinism Defeated? The Johnson-Lamoureux Debate on Biological Origins, Regent College, Vancouver, BC, p. 50.
33. W. A. Dembski, ed., 1998, Introduction, pp. 13-32.
34. Mere Creation: Science, Faith and Intelligent Design, InterVarsity, Downers Grove, IL, p. 20.
35. For a concise discussion of providence and miracle.
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38. J. P. Moreland and J. M. Reynolds, eds., Three Views on Creation and Evolution, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MI.
39. W. A. Dembski, 1998, Introduction, pp. 13-32 in Mere Creation: Science, Faith and Intelligent Design, InterVarsity, Downers Grove, IL.
40. I have made these arguments elsewhere.
41. K. B. Miller, 1999, Design and Purpose within an Evolving Creation, pp. 109-20.
42. P. E. Johnson and D. O. Lamoureux, eds., Darwinism Defeated? The Johnson-Lamoureux Debate on Biological Origins, Regent College, Vancouver, BC, pp. 109-20.
43. K. B. Miller, 2005, Countering Public Misconceptions about the Nature of Evolutionary Science, Southeastern Biology 52:415-27.
44. Simultaneously published in Georgia Journal of Science 63:175-89.
45. P. E. Nelson, 1998, Applying Design within Biology, pp. 148-76.
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50. W. A. Dembski, 1998, The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
51. P. E. Nelson, 1998, Applying Design within Biology, pp. 148-76.
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54. J. P. Moreland and J. M. Reynolds, eds., Three Views on Creation and Evolution, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MI, p. 47.
55. M. J. Behe, 1996, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, Touchstone, New York, p. 193.
56. I have elsewhere stated, "If a person cannot God in a sunset or a thunderstorm, he or she will not him in a strand of DNA or a mitotic spindle.".
57. K. B. Miller, 1998, God's Action in Nature, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 50:75.
58. M. J. Behe, 1996, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, Touchstone, New York, p. 197.
59. I discuss these various public misunderstandings at length.
60. K. B. Miller, 2005, Countering Public Misconceptions about the Nature of Evolutionary Science, Southeastern Biology 52:415-27.
61. P. Nelson, 2004, Interview: The Measure of Design, Touchstone, July-August, pp. 64-65.
62. W. Dembski, 2002, keynote address delivered at RAPID (Research and Progress in Intelligent Design) Conference, Biola University, La Mirada, CA, October 25.
63. B. Gordon, 2001, Intelligent Design Movement Struggles with Identity Crisis, Research News and Opportunities in Science and Theology, January, p. 9.