What is the Intelligent Design Network and what are their core beliefs?

Answer 1

The core belief of all Intelligent Design groups and people, is that things in the universe (humans, animals, the water cycle, physical constants, etc.), exhibit vast wisdom and cannot possibly have come about just by random events. The universe must have been deliberately designed.

• Theoretical physicist and popular science writer Paul Davies (whose early writings were not especially sympathetic to theism) states concerning the fundamental structure of the universe, "the impression of design is overwhelming" (Davies, 1988, p. 203).

• The laws of the universe seem to have been set in such a way that stars, planets and life can exist. Many constants of nature appear to be finely tuned for this, and the odds against this happening by chance are astronomical.
• "To the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation" (Corner, E.J.H., Contemporary Botanical Thought).
• "Nine-tenths of the talk of evolutionists is sheer nonsense, not founded on observation and wholly unsupported by facts. This museum is full of proofs of the utter falsity of their views. In all this great museum, there is not a particle of evidence of the transmutation of species" (Dr. Etheridge, Paleontologist of the British Museum).
  

"To postulate that the development and survival of the fittest is entirely a consequence of chance mutations seems to me a hypothesis based on no evidence and irreconcilable with the facts. It amazes me that this is swallowed so uncritically and readily, and for such a long time, by so many scientists without murmur of protest" (Sir Ernest Chain, Nobel Prize winner).

• Mutations are harmful, not beneficial. One of the tasks of DNA and of long-term breeding is to avoid or repair any changes brought about by mutations. This means that our genetic apparatus is programmed to resist change.
• You need DNA to make DNA. No genetic code can be demonstrated to have arisen by chance, together with the ability to read that code and carry out its instructions. Information does not arise spontaneously; and there is an incredible amount of information in even the tiniest cell.
  

"A living cell is so awesomely complex that its interdependent components stagger the imagination and defy evolutionary explanations" (Michael Denton, author).
"The astounding structural complexity of a cell" (U.S. National Library of Medicine).
Concerning a single structure within a cell: "Without the motor protein, the microtubules don't slide and the cilium simply stands rigid. Without nexin, the tubules will slide against each other until they completely move past each other and the cilium disintegrates. Without the tubulin, there are no microtubules and no motion. The cilium is irreducibly complex. Like a mousetrap, it has all the properties of design and none of the properties of natural selection" (Michael Behe, prof. of biophysics).

• "The concept of abiogenesis is not science. It's fantasy" (J.L. Wile, Ph.D.).

The Intelligent Design Network is an organization founded by geologist John H. Calvert J.D., B.A., that seeks to bring about the legal acceptance of teaching Creationism and not only Evolution in public schools.

Answer 2

The Intelligent Design Network is an organization that promotes the idea that certain features of the universe and living organisms are best explained by an intelligent cause, rather than natural selection. Their core belief is that some aspects of the natural world are too complex to have evolved through random processes and therefore require an intelligent designer.

Answer 3

From Wikipedia: "The Intelligent Design network, inc.(commonly IDnet or Intelligent Design Network) is a nonprofit organization formed in Kansas to promote the pseudoscientific principle of intelligent design."You can find more information, and links, on the Wikipedia page.