The Loom is the blog of Carl Zimmer, the well known and truly excellent science writer. He wrote the article describing the Avida program that proves irreducible complexity can evolve (that I commented on here), and his blog is always a good read. Today he does a search to look for any peer reviewed papers supporting Intelligent Design, and (unsurprisingly) finds very little: in fact nothing involving any actual, you know, experiments or anything like that.
A sample:
Perhaps the other prominent fellows of the Discovery Institute (Michael Behe, Stephen Meyer, and William Dembski) have published scientific papers that have a bearing on intelligent design, without identifying their affiliation. Aside from a couple letters to the editor, the databases yielded only one paper, in which Behe offers a simple model of gene duplication and expresses doubt that new genes could evolve by this process. Given that other scientists have published 2266 papers exploring gene duplication's role in evolution, it's safe to say that his is not a view held by most experts.
For the full article, read The Big Picture.
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