Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness Center

{{Short description|Nonprofit advocacy organization}}

{{Intelligent Design}}

The Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness Center (IDEA Center) is a nonprofit advocacy organization that promotes the pseudoscientific principle{{cite journal |last1=Boudry |first1=Maarten |author-link1=Maarten Boudry |last2=Blancke |first2=Stefaan |last3=Braeckman |first3=Johan |author-link3=Johan Braeckman |date=December 2010 |title=Irreducible Incoherence and Intelligent Design: A Look into the Conceptual Toolbox of a Pseudoscience |journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology |location=Chicago, IL |publisher=University of Chicago Press |volume=85 |issue=4 |pages=473–482 |doi=10.1086/656904 |pmid=21243965 |url=https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/952482/file/6828579.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/952482/file/6828579.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |hdl=1854/LU-952482 |s2cid=27218269 |hdl-access=free }} Article available from [https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/952482 Universiteit Gent] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626115148/https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/952482 |date=June 26, 2015 }}{{cite book|last1=Pigliucci |first1=Massimo |author-link=Massimo Pigliucci |year=2010 |chapter=Science in the Courtroom: The Case against Intelligent Design |chapter-url=http://ncse.com/files/pub/evolution/Nonsenseonstilts.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://ncse.com/files/pub/evolution/Nonsenseonstilts.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title=Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk |location=Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-66786-7 |lccn=2009049778 |oclc=457149439 |pages=160–186}}{{cite book |last1=Perakh |first1=Mark |last2=Young |first2=Matt |editor-last1=Young |editor-first1=Matt |editor-last2=Edis |editor-first2=Taner |year=2004 |title=Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SVb7Q1gd3ZgC |publisher=Rutgers University Press |chapter=13. Is Intelligent Design Science? |pages=195–196 |isbn=0-8135-3433-X |access-date=April 13, 2025 |archive-date=March 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327170421/https://books.google.com/books?id=SVb7Q1gd3ZgC |url-status=live }} of intelligent design.{{cite web |title=Intelligent Design Evolution Awareness Center - GuideStar Profile |url=https://www.guidestar.org/profile/46-0485893 |publisher=Guidestar |access-date=4 November 2018 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Cliquet |first1=Robert |last2=Avramov |first2=Dragana |title=Evolution Science and Ethics in the Third Millennium: Challenges and Choices for Humankind |date=2018 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9783319730905 |page=147 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pJ1GDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA147 |language=en}}

The center was formed in 2001;{{cite book |last1=Gunn |first1=Angus M. |title=Intelligent Design and Fundamentalist Opposition to Evolution |date=2006 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9781476600017 |page=123 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ixzBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA123 |language=en}} it grew out of a Christian student club that was formed at University of California, San Diego in May 1999 by Steve Renner, Eddie Colanter, and Casey Luskin after the "father" of the intelligent design movement Phillip E. Johnson lectured at UCSD.{{cite web|url=http://www.vwc.edu/academics/csrf/issues/inteldesigncampus.php |title=Intelligent Design Gains Momentum, Raises Eyebrows on Campuses |date= January 11, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060902061120/http://www.vwc.edu/academics/csrf/issues/inteldesigncampus.php |archive-date=September 2, 2006 |publisher=Religion News Service via Virginia Wesleyan College|quote=Luskin explained that as a Christian group, 'we wanted to be totally open about who we thought the designer was.'}}{{cite web |last1=Luskin |first1=Casey |url=http://www-acs.ucsd.edu/~idea/archives/about.shtml |title=About the IDEA Club |publisher=Idea Club via UCSD |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070624115606/http://www-acs.ucsd.edu/~idea/archives/about.shtml |archive-date=June 24, 2007}} By 2008 it appeared to be moribund.{{cite book |last1=Kaden |first1=Tom |title=Creationism and Anti-Creationism in the United States |date=2018 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9783319993805 |pages=40–41 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W3hvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA40 |language=en |format=Translation of German original which was first published in 2015}}