ID Advocates Fail to Submit Proposals for Research

Intelligent design advocates criticize biological evolution, which is based on at least 150 years of research and observation, but when the John Templeton Foundation offered financial support for scientific research into intelligent design, no one stepped up to the plate. As reported in today's New York Times, "The Templeton Foundation, a major supporter of projects seeking to reconcile science and religion, says that after providing a few grants for conferences and courses to debate intelligent design, they asked proponents to submit proposals for actual research. "They never came in," said Charles L. Harper Jr., senior vice president at the Templeton Foundation, who said that while he was skeptical from the beginning, other foundation officials were initially intrigued and later grew disillusioned. "From the point of view of rigor and intellectual seriousness, the intelligent design people don't come out very well in our world of scientific review," he said."