Yes, I did indeed say it. One of the top Universities in the world, Cornell, in the area of Biological Sciences is teaching Intelligent Design.
The course was taught by Allen MacNeill, and the information can be found here:
Allen MacNeill replies:
The course is, indeed, interdisciplinary. Credit is available through four departments: ecology & evolutionary biology, biology & society, history (of science), and science & technology studies. And it isn't just ID that will be discussed. The existence of design and/or purpose in nature (technically "teleology") has been debated for millennia. We will be approaching the topic from both a historical and philosophical point of view, using modern ID theory as a focus for our discussions. I expect that at least some participants will be surprised to learn that the question of purpose in nature has been addressed by evolutionary biologists such as Francisco Ayala, Ernst Mayr, Colin Pittendrigh, and William Wimsatt, as well as by philosophers of science such as Ernst Nagel and Andrew Woodfield. We will be reading papers and excerpts from these and other authors, as well as the books listed in the reading list. I hope that all participants will come out of the course with a much clearer understanding of just what design and purpose is, how we can recognize it, and what part it plays in natural systems.
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Thats a direct quote from Mr. Allen MacNeill, who admits here that he is teaching Intelligent Design, in the Biology section of the course manual of Cornell University.
More can be found here in regards to the actual course's content:
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, April 9 - The Intelligent Design Evolution Awareness (IDEA) Club at Cornell would like to applaud Allen MacNeill, the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Department, and Cornell University on this summer’s new course, BioEE 467: “Evolution and Design: Is There Purpose in Nature?”
Five and a half months after President Rawlings’ State of the University address condemning intelligent design, this course is Cornell’s first to focus on the theory from a historical and scientific perspective. Based on books such as Dembski and Ruse’s Debating Design and Behe’s Darwin’s Black Box, the course purports “to sort out the various issues at play, and to come to clarity on how those issues can be integrated into the perspective of the natural sciences as a whole.”
This four-credit seminar course, taught by the EEB Senior Lecturer Allen MacNeil, will also take a broader look at the historical disputes surrounding evolution.
Although we have been on opposite sides of many debates, we have always appreciated MacNeil’s commitment to the ideal of the university as a “free market-place of ideas.” We have found him always ready to go out of his way to encourage diversity of thought, and his former students speak highly of his fairness. We look forward to a course where careful examination of the issues and critical thinking is encouraged.
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