iDesign at UCI: Light Posting This Week

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Welcome Message To New Students

Interested in Origins?
Join the club.

MISSION STATEMENT:

iDesign Club at UCI seeks to foster scientific discussions regarding the origins of life and the universe. Theories such as Darwinian evolution, intelligent design, and creationism will be critically analyzed.

FAQ:

Q: WHAT IS THIS CLUB ABOUT?

Origins! We are interested in discussing alternative theories to the origins of biological structures. While the current mainstream theory in academia is Darwinian evolution, we would also like to discuss other viable ideas, such as intelligent design.

Q: WHO CAN BE A MEMBER OF THIS CLUB?

Anybody! Students of Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Anthropology, and Philosophy may especially find this club intriguing. However, you do not need to have a science background to be an effective member of this club.

Q: WHEN AND WHERE ARE CLUB MEETINGS?

Please check blog entries for time and place.

Q: WHAT IS THE MEMBERSHIP FEE?

Nothing! There are no membership dues.

Q: IS THIS CLUB BIASED TOWARDS ONE SPECIFIC THEORY OF ORIGINS?

Perhaps. Ponder the name of this club. This club is ideologically the mirror of another club at UCI, the Students for Science and Skepticism. However, our main goal is to give a balanced view of the controversy regarding the origins of life so that students can come to an informed conclusion themselves.

Q: WHAT DOES THE LETTER "i" STAND FOR IN iDESIGN?

Good question -- the answer is intelligent.

Q: WHERE IS THE CLUB CONSTITUTION?

We adhere to the minimum constitution that was provided by the Dean of Students. In the future, we plan to draft a comprehensive constitution and bylaws.

Q: IS iDESIGN AFFILIATED WITH ANY ORGANIZATION?

No. However, we are friends with the IDEA Center

ORGANIZATION:

PRESIDENT:
Arthur
Information and Computer Science

VICE PRESIDENT:
Brian
Biology / English

DIRECTOR:
Andrew
English / Economics

Sunday, June 12, 2005

Light Posting This Week

Finals is this week! I know that I promised to write a post about the TCS article, but that will have to wait. Dembski has a post about transhumanism here (BTW, he also plugged the iDesign blog a week ago, thanks!). Telic Thoughts also wrote about the issue here.

Hope everyone does well on finals! "Chance favors the prepared mind."

Posted by Art at 3:59 PM

4 Comments:

SkyDaddy said...

I googled "idesign club" and found this comment at a dutch anti-id site: http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/everyone_else_talk_for_a_while/

#8: 386sx — 06/03 at 02:22 AM
One interesting news item I ran across was that the president of the new iDesign Club at UCI is a cherry-picking loon, and that Intelligent design is agnostic about who the designer is, and that, "However, I think that it is still okay to label the naturalistic explanation as Darwinism, because most people use these terms interchangeably." So we can rest assured that calling everything under the sun that is not "magic poofyness" Darwinism has nothing to do with the fact that the name of "Darwin" has been demonized among a bunch of loonies.

6/15/2005 12:39 PM

Art said...

Even though iDesign is less than two weeks old, it is already getting some critical attention -- this is a good thing, I suppose. Thanks for the link, Corrie.

The comment is very amusing, especially this part: "the name of 'Darwin' has been demonized among a bunch of loonies." Actually, this blog hasn't really criticized Darwin once (at least not yet). Stay tuned though.

6/15/2005 10:40 PM

Anonymous said...

Stay tuned though.

Oh, we know it's coming. You have all the earmarks of a Young Earth Creationist. Anyway, I can assure you that I do not speak for all the Dutch people. (Very cool music by the way, Mr. Asuncion.) Cheers!

6/15/2005 11:41 PM

Art said...

Hi 386sx,
Thanks for visiting this site (and for the music compliment)! Minor clarification on my comment above: I don't think we'll be criticizing Darwin himself (as a person), but his scientific theories are fair game.

6/18/2005 10:49 PM

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