Getting the IDEA of ID into Universities

As mentioned in my first post on this blog, Academic Freedom day is on the way for December 12. This recognition was created in response to Darwin Day. IDEA stands for Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness. Over 25 campuses have an Idea chapter. Perhaps you should support a chapter starting in your college or university. From the website http://www.ideacenter.org.

The Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness (IDEA) Center is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization dedicated to promoting intelligent design theory. The Center has existed since 2001, but has its roots in the pre-existing Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness (IDEA) Club at the University of California at San Diego.

The mission of the IDEA Center is:

• To promote, as a scientific theory, the idea that life was designed by an intelligence;
• To educate people about scientific problems with purely natural explanations for the origins and evolution of life;
• To challenge the philosophical assumptions of Darwinism, naturalism, and materialism;
• To support academic freedom for legitimate intellectual viewpoints in academia and the culture as a whole;
• To facilitate discussion, debate, and dialogue concerning these issues in a warm, friendly, and open atmosphere where individuals feel free to speak their personal views;
• To help students on university and high school campuses, and others, to start IDEA Clubs to fulfill this mission.

Photo on Right: IDEA staff pose with UC Berkeley Law Professor Phillip Johnson after a Center - sponsored lecture. Our small staff is based out of San Diego, California, and handles the programs and activities of the IDEA Center. Professor Johnson, whose writings helped form the intelligent design movement, is a member of the IDEA Center's Advisory Board.