Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.

Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus.

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

The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical reality. Indeed, intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

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

Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.

I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.