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The New Yorker Discovers ID

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The May 30 issue of The New Yorker features an article by H. Allen Orr on the Intelligent Design (ID) movement. Orr is, as one might expect, not convinced by the ID critique of Darwnism. The article offers familiar critiques of the work of Michael Behe and William Dembski, who as of June 1st joins my faculty at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. The one telling piece of The New Yorker article is the concession that the Darwinist “policy of limited scientific engagement” with ID has failed. Clearly, the “if we ignore it, it will go away” strategy of the peer reviewed journals is a losing one.

Only when we see how lost we are, we can find our way again. Only when we bury what’s dead can we experience life again. Only when we lose our religion can we be amazed by grace again.

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About Russell Moore

Russell Moore is Editor in Chief of Christianity Today and is the author of the forthcoming book Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America (Penguin Random House).

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