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[theweaselking]

The New York Times points out that despite the posturing and the media blitz, "Intelligent Design" is getting no love on a scientific level, even from the most fervent Baptists at Baylor University, and it has yet to actually produce anything of scientific merit.

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.
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