This galvanizes the Christian community. People I'm talking to say we're going to be raising a whole lot more funds now.

Creationism was consciously trying to model the science on a certain interpretation of Genesis. You don't have anything like that in intelligent design.

[The intelligent-design textbook at the heart of the Dover case,] Of Pandas and People, ... The Design of Life: Discovering Signs of Intelligence in Biological Systems.

Advances in probability theory, computer science, the concept of information, molecular biology and the philosophy of science.

[But after Darwin's 1859 publication of] On the Origin of Species, ... The sense that you needed a watchmaker disappeared. The watch could put itself together.

Virtually every discipline and endeavor is presently under a naturalistic pall.

What needs to happen if you're going to tell an evolutionary story is you have to tell a story of gradual change and at each point there has to be some sort of selective advantage. The evidence is just not there that these processes can do the sort of design work that I am pointing to.

In Darwin's day, the cell was basically a little blob of Jell-O enclosed by a membrane. That's why Darwin didn't write about the origin of life; he wrote about the origin of species.

To lift that pall will require a new generation of scholars and professionals who explicitly reject naturalism and consciously seek to understand the design that God has placed in the world.