This is a major problem that certain Christian groups (the Biologos scientists, conservative William F. Buckley style Catholics, reform and evangelical Christians) are very reluctant to deal with. But sooner or later I think they are going to have to acknowledge and repudiate the intellectual dishonesty at the heart of the entire intelligent design program.

I got into this back in 1986 because I was incensed that people like Henry M. Morris would tell falsehood after falsehood while claiming the mantle of Christian brotherhood. It seemed to me that I had to be vocal in my rebuttals to religious antievolution ideas lest my belief be taken as complicity in what those folks were doing.

I also have a question– in your opinion, do the leaders in the ID movement deliberately lie and deceive? Over at BioLogos, Darrel Falk and probably the other leaders there maintain that the ID folks are not liars and deceivers, just misguided. My own thought is that it’s perhaps very difficult to acknowledge that a fellow Christian would deliberately deceive.

Many Creationists do not hold to a 6-day event 6,000 years ago, without denying they are Creationists.