What has been the impact of the intelligent design movement? In 1986, I first began giving lectures on university campuses on the topic, "Is There Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God?" I was often challenged by angry professors in the audience who claimed that any attempt to support belief in a Creator God with scientific evidence was completely "out of bounds," no matter how compelling the evidence might be.

Between 1986 and 2002 I gave this talk about 120 times to campus-wide audiences at major college campuses to more than 65,000 students. These presentations were made at Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Penn State, the University of Michigan, the University of Virginia, the University of Illinois, the University of Texas, Texas A&M University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Colorado, the University of Washington, UCLA, USC, Stanford, the University of California, Berkeley, and many other universities. During this time, the objections from the audience about the legitimacy of the arguments gradually disappeared, allowing the question and answer period to focus exclusively on the sufficiency of the evidence itself. (Darwin’s Nemesis p. 309-10)

We can recall the firestorm of protest when Stephen Meyer's article "The Origin of Biological Information and the Higher Taxonomic Categories" appeared in the September 2004 issue of Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. The editor stepped down (fired) for allowing this article to be published. The unwritten rule was violated, namely that no paper that explicitly supports intelligent design can ever be published in a peer-reviewed journal, no matter how cogent the arguments. Notwithstanding, some of our critics have the gall to argue that ID is not credible because it is not supported in the peer-reviewed literature. (Darwin’s Nemesis p. 313)

Walter L. Bradley received his B.S. in Engineering Science and his Ph.D. in Materials science, both from the University of Texas.

Phillip Johnson received his B.A. from Harvard and his J.D. from the University of Chicago. Johnson is the author of Darwin on Trial and more recently Reason in the Balance. Darwin on Trial contends theories of evolution are based on philosophical naturalism. Reason in the Balance explores the post-modern philosophy and its impact on society. Since the writing of his books, Johnson has spoken and debated extensively with experts on these issues.

Article compiled by Ed Hopkins. Ed is a science educator with 32 years of experience teaching science. Ed has an undergraduate degree in chemistry and biology from George Peabody Teacher’s College, TN and a M.Ed. from Atlantic University, FL. Ed has been working closely with the Creation Studies Institute, Ft. Lauderdale, FL since its inception in 1988.