Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness Center

Nonprofit advocacy organization

Part of a series on

Intelligent design

Watchmaker analogy

Concepts

* Irreducible complexity
* Specified complexity
* Fine-tuned universe
* Intelligent designer
* Theistic science
* Neo-creationism

Movement

* Timeline
* Wedge strategy
* Politics
* Kitzmiller v. Dover

Campaigns

* Discovery Institute campaigns
* "Teach the controversy"

Authors

* Jonathan Wells
* William A. Dembski
* Phillip E. Johnson
* Michael Behe
* Stephen C. Meyer

Organisations

* Discovery Institute
* Center for Science and Culture
* Centre for Intelligent Design
* International Society for Complexity,
Information, and Design (ISCID)

* Intelligent Design and
Evolution Awareness Center

* Physicians and Surgeons for
Scientific Integrity

* Truth in Science

Reactions

* Jewish
* Roman Catholic

* Scientific bodies that explicitly
reject intelligent design

Creationism

* Category

* v
* t
* e

The Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness Center (IDEA Center) is a nonprofit advocacy organization that promotes the pseudoscientific principle[1][2][3] of intelligent design.[4][5]

The center was formed in 2001;[6] it grew out of a Christian student club that was formed at University of California, San Diego in May 1999 by Steve Renner, Eddie Colanter, and Casey Luskin after the "father" of the intelligent design movement Phillip E. Johnson lectured at UCSD.[7][8] By 2008 it appeared to be moribund.[9]

## See also

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* A Scientific Support for Darwinism
* Creation–evolution controversy
* National Center for Science Education
* Project Steve

## References

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1. ^ Boudry, Maarten; Blancke, Stefaan; Braeckman, Johan (December 2010). "Irreducible Incoherence and Intelligent Design: A Look into the Conceptual Toolbox of a Pseudoscience" (PDF). The Quarterly Review of Biology. 85 (4). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press: 473–482\. doi:10.1086/656904. hdl:1854/LU-952482. PMID 21243965. S2CID 27218269. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-09. Article available from Universiteit Gent Archived June 26, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
2. ^ Pigliucci, Massimo (2010). "Science in the Courtroom: The Case against Intelligent Design" (PDF). Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 160–186\. ISBN 978-0-226-66786-7. LCCN 2009049778. OCLC 457149439. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-09.
3. ^ Perakh, Mark; Young, Matt (2004). "13. Is Intelligent Design Science?". In Young, Matt; Edis, Taner (eds.). Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism. Rutgers University Press. pp. 195–196\. ISBN 0-8135-3433-X. Archived from the original on March 27, 2023. Retrieved April 13, 2025.
4. ^ "Intelligent Design Evolution Awareness Center - GuideStar Profile". Guidestar. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
5. ^ Cliquet, Robert; Avramov, Dragana (2018). Evolution Science and Ethics in the Third Millennium: Challenges and Choices for Humankind. Springer. p. 147\. ISBN 9783319730905.
6. ^ Gunn, Angus M. (2006). Intelligent Design and Fundamentalist Opposition to Evolution. McFarland. p. 123\. ISBN 9781476600017.
7. ^ "Intelligent Design Gains Momentum, Raises Eyebrows on Campuses". Religion News Service via Virginia Wesleyan College. January 11, 2006. Archived from the original on September 2, 2006. "Luskin explained that as a Christian group, 'we wanted to be totally open about who we thought the designer was.'"
8. ^ Luskin, Casey. "About the IDEA Club". Idea Club via UCSD. Archived from the original on June 24, 2007.
9. ^ Kaden, Tom (2018). Creationism and Anti-Creationism in the United States (Translation of German original which was first published in 2015). Springer. pp. 40–41\. ISBN 9783319993805.

## External links

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* IDEA Center site
* Human Timeline (Interactive) – Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History (August 2016).

Portals:

* Evolutionary biology
* Science

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