Thus, in its relation to Christianity, intelligent design should be viewed as a ground-clearing operation that gets rid of the intellectual rubbish that for generations has kept Christianity from receiving serious consideration.

I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God.

Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.

In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.

The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to the intelligibility of the world. The match between our intelligence and the intelligibility of the world is no accident. Nor can it properly be attributed to natural selection, which places a premium on survival and reproduction and has no stake in truth or conscious thought. Indeed, meat-puppet robots are just fine as the output of a Darwinian evolutionary process.

Precisely because intelligent design does not turn the study of biological origins into a Bible-science controversy, intelligent design is a position around which Christians of all stripes can unite.

Any view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient.