Intelligent Design Timeline
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History of ID
An abbreviated chronological list of events in the history of the term "intelligent design."[1]
BCMarcus Cicero (106-43 BC) gave perhaps one of the first formulations of an informational/probabilistic account of the cosmos and biological organisms.[2] The quote is unmistakably a seminal and rough description of what William Dembski and others in the ID community would later call Specified Complexity. AD1700-17991776 Declaration of Independence
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1953Watson and Crick's paper, A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid, was published on April 25. Their paper forever changed the way biologists and chemists looked at the living cell. The result is that the cell becomes a digital coding-programming entity, and molecular biology and bioinformatics became extremely important fields for biology. 1981Sir Fred Hoyle, began to propose a hypothesis of "directed panspermia," in which it is proposed that an extraterrestrial "...intelligence which assembled the enzymes..." was responsible for the origin and diversity of life by bombarding our planet with comets laced with viruses. (Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe (1981), Evolution from Space (London: J.M. Dent & Sons), p 139) 1984
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Notes
- ^ The textual basis of this timeline was formed from pages at ideacenter.org and wikipedia.org
- ^ "Can I but wonder here that anyone can persuade himself that certain solid and individual bodies should be moved by their natural forces and gravitation in such a manner that a world so beautiful adorned should be made by fortuitous concourse. He who believes this possible may as well believe, that if a great quantity of the one and twenty letters, composed of gold or any other matter, were thrown upon the ground, they would fall into such order as legibly to form the ‘Annals of Ennius’. I doubt whether fortune could make a single verse of them." -- Marcus Cicero, as he engages the Epicureans, who held that the world came about purely by chance. Cicero is quoted by the stoic Lucilius Balbus in De Natura Deorum.
- ^ "No physical hypothesis founded on any indisputable fact has yet explained the origin of the primordial protoplasm, and, above all, of its marvellous properties, which render evolution possible—in heredity and in adaptability, for these properties are the cause and not the effect of evolution. For the cause of this cause we have sought in vain among the physical forces which surround us, until we are at last compelled to rest upon an independent volition, a far-seeing intelligent design."
'The British Association', The Times, Saturday, 20 September, 1873; pg. 10; col A. - ^ Denton is a self-identified agnostic. In 1986 he described himself as an agnostic to a Sydney newspaper reporter.
- ^ Stephen C. Meyer, cofounder of the Discovery Institute and vice president of the Center for Science and Culture, reports that the term came up in 1988 at a conference he attended in Tacoma, Washington, called Sources of Information Content in DNA. Meyer attributes the phrase to Charles Thaxton, one of the authors of The Mystery of Life's Origin.
- ^ 'Evolution according to Hoyle: Survivors of disaster in an earlier world', By Nicholas Timmins, The Times, Wednesday, 13 January, 1982; pg. 22; Issue 61130; col F.
