The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.

Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.

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.

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

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.

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

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