The DI blog said,
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Actually, "the intellectual underpinnings" of intelligent design come not from any think tank, but from the biologists, biochemists, physicists, astronomers, mathematicians, philosophers, and other scholars who have developed design theory. When Discovery Institute started its program on intelligent design in 1996, many of the leading scholars supportive of design were already writing and researching in this area. The theory of design predates any involvement by a think tank. Time does its best to obscure the fact that the chief proponents of ID have been academics from a variety of scientific fields.
In actual actuality, "the intellectual underpinning" of intelligent design was the more sophisticated end of the creationist movement in the 1980's. After the 1987 Supreme Court decision against creationism, they got together and produced the first book that widely mentions "intelligent design",
Of Pandas and People, in 1989.
Pandas was clearly a direct response to the 1987
Edwards ruling, and it reads like a roadmap for the "research" of the ID movement in the 1990's. All of the key players in
Pandas -- Dean Kenyon, Percival Davis, Charles Thaxton, etc. -- were well-known creationists with many creationist publications in the 1980's.
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