In the 2008 movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed which promotes intelligent design, Ben Stein persistently refers to scientists as Darwinists.

* 2005 – US District Court Judge John E. Jones III rules against mandating the teaching of " intelligent design " in his ruling of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.

The leading proponents of intelligent design are associated with the Discovery Institute, a politically conservative think tank, and believe the designer to be the Christian deity.

The status of intelligent design in Australia is somewhat similar to that in the UK ( see Education in Australia ).

When the former Australian Federal Education Minister, Brendan Nelson, raised the notion of intelligent design being taught in science classes, the public outcry caused the minister to quickly concede that the correct forum for intelligent design, if it were to be taught, is in religious or philosophy classes.

* Discovery Institute, Center for Science and Culture ( Hub of the intelligent design movement )

* EvolutionNews. org Discovery Institute website tracking media coverage of intelligent design.

* 139 page in-depth analysis of intelligent design, irreducible complexity, and the book Of Pandas and People by the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District judge

* Discovery's Creation An overview of the origin of the intelligent design movement.

* Intelligent Design Deja Vu What would " intelligent design " science classes look like?

* Banned in biology class: intelligent design ( Christian Science Monitor )

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: This article covers irreducible complexity as used by those who argue for intelligent design.

Irreducible complexity ( IC ) is an argument by proponents of intelligent design that certain biological systems are too complex to have evolved from simpler, or " less complete " predecessors, through natural selection acting upon a series of advantageous naturally occurring, chance mutations.

The argument is central to intelligent design, and is rejected by the scientific community at large, which overwhelmingly regards intelligent design as pseudoscience.

Irreducible complexity is one of two main arguments used by intelligent design proponents, the other being specified complexity.

Supporters of intelligent design argue that anything less than the complete form of such a system or organ would not work at all, or would in fact be a detriment to the organism, and would therefore never survive the process of natural selection.

By showing how simple unintelligent forces can ratchet up designs of extraordinary complexity without invoking outside design, Darwin showed that an intelligent designer was not the necessary conclusion to draw from complexity in nature.

" The history of this concept in the dispute has been characterized: " An older and more religious tradition of idealist thinkers were committed to the explanation of complex adaptive contrivances by intelligent design.

Proponents of the intelligent design movement such as Cornelius G. Hunter, have asserted that the methodological naturalism upon which science is based is religious in nature.

In April 2000, Dembski hosted a conference on " naturalism in science " sponsored by the Templeton Foundation and the hub of the intelligent design movement, the Discovery Institute, seeking to address the question " Is there anything beyond nature ?".

a conservative Christian think tank that is the hub of the intelligent design movement, held a congressional briefing in Washington, D. C., to promote their agenda to lawmakers.

Phillip E. Johnson, retired UC Berkeley law professor, leading proponent of intelligent design, founding advisor of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, and " father " of the intelligent design movement, assisted Santorum in phrasing the amendment.

In the past, Plantinga has lent support to the intelligent design movement.

D ' Souza says " living creatures are the products of intelligent design ," but is not a proponent of the intelligent design ( ID ) movement, as he does not consider ID to be a satisfactory alternative to the theory of evolution by natural selection.

The goal of the intelligent design movement the Society supports is to " reverse the stifling materialist world view and replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions " and to " affirm the reality of God.

Among them are leaders of the intelligent design movement and fellows of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, the hub of that movement, including Dembski, Michael Behe, Jonathan Wells, William Lane Craig, and Henry F. Schaefer.

One of the primary criticisms of the intelligent design movement and hindrances to intelligent-design claims being considered legitimate science is that intelligent-design proponents have failed to produce supporting research papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

* Phillip E. Johnson ( born 1940 ), professor of law and one of the founders of the intelligent design movement

Described as " a pair of deft, intelligent rappers " by Allmusic, they were major contributors to the jazz rap movement of the early 1990s.

The movement has been criticised by some ( both religious and non-religious ) who have objected to the adoption of the title " bright " because they believe it suggests that the individuals with a naturalistic worldview are more intelligent (" brighter ") than non-naturalists, such as philosophical skeptics or idealists, believers in the paranormal, philosophical theists or the religious.

Botard argues against the existence of the so called rhinoceritis movement that Mrs. Bœuf claims is occurring, saying that the local people are too intelligent to be tricked by the empty rhetorics of a mass movement.

He became a born-again Christian while a tenured professor and is considered the father of the intelligent design movement.

Johnson is best known as one of the founders of the intelligent design movement, principal architect of the Wedge Strategy, author of the Santorum Amendment, and one of the ID movement's most prolific authors.

Nancy Pearcey, a Center for Science and Culture fellow and Johnson associate, credits Johnson's leadership of the intelligent design movement in two of her most recent publications.

Phillip Johnson has developed what is called the ' Intelligent Design ' movement ..." In Christianity Today, she reveals Johnson's religious beliefs and his criticism of evolution and affirms Johnson as " The unofficial spokesman for ID " The scientific community views intelligent design as unscientific, pseudoscience and junk science .< ref >< cite >" Biologists aren ’ t alarmed by intelligent design ’ s arrival in Dover and elsewhere because they have all sworn allegiance to atheistic materialism ; they ’ re alarmed because intelligent design is junk science.

That is why the United Nations was formed so that intelligent men with good intentions from all countries could meet and solve problems without resorting to war.

Since apurva is non-sentient, it cannot act unless moved by an intelligent being such as a god.

Characterized as a sociopath and a hardened juvenile delinquent, Alex is also intelligent and quick-witted, with sophisticated taste in music, being particularly fond of Beethoven, or " Lovely Ludwig Van.

After Achilles, Ajax is the most valuable warrior in Agamemnon's army ( along with Diomedes ), though he is not as cunning as Nestor, Diomedes, Idomeneus, or Odysseus, he is much more powerful and just as intelligent.

Leer is an intelligent soldier in Bäumer's company, and one of his classmates.

Abbas was an intelligent prince, possessed some literary taste, and is noteworthy on account of the comparative simplicity of his life.

Any form of intelligent life would do ; so, specifying carbon-based life, per se, is irrelevant.

In the field of artificial intelligence, the most difficult problems are informally known as AI-complete or AI-hard, implying that the difficulty of these computational problems is equivalent to solving the central artificial intelligence problem — making computers as intelligent as people, or strong AI.

" Calmer, though cockier and marginally more intelligent than Beavis, Butt-Head is oblivious to subtlety of any sort and is usually completely confident in everything he says and does, no matter how ridiculous or frivolous it is -- unless it has to do with females, in which case he either wavers or comes on too strongly.

Another significant difference is that the character of Prince Edmund presented in the pilot is much closer to the intelligent, conniving Blackadder of the later series than the snivelling, weak buffoon of the original.

This is not an exhaustive list, but is meant to cover the wide range of intelligent behaviors.

The first is focused on abstract mental functions of an intelligent mind and operates using symbols, and the second, which follows the neural and associative properties of the human brain, is called subsymbolic.

These methods allow us to understand how intelligent behavior is implemented in a physical system.

Evidence of the bias toward portraying Mehmed as an intelligent military leader is reflected in the statement: " The sultan ordered the setting up of his secret weapon which he had invented himself.

Claudius has been portrayed in film on several other occasions, including in the 1979 motion picture Caligula, the role being performed by Giancarlo Badessi in which the character was depicted as an idiot, in contrast to Robert Graves ' portrait of Claudius as a cunning and deeply intelligent man who is perceived by others to be an idiot.

These machines are self-replicating and, as is found out through the course of the movie, they are quite intelligent and have managed to " evolve " into newer, more dangerous forms, most notably human forms which the real humans in the movie cannot tell apart from other real humans except by trial and error.

It supposes that there is a program that gives a computer the ability to carry on an intelligent conversation in written Chinese.

Each is simply following a program, step-by-step, which simulates intelligent behavior.