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Nature 438, 422 (24 November 2005) | doi:10.1038/438422c; Published online 23 November 2005

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Is the ID debate proof of an intelligent deceiver?

A. Richard Palmer1

  1. Systematics and Evolution Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada

In the ongoing debate over whether intelligent design (ID) should be taught as a legitimate alternative to evolution in schools ("Expert witness: the scientists who testified against intelligent design" Nature 438, 11; 2005), I suggest that ID could be presented as an alternative so long as it is always accompanied by a third option: intelligent deception.This hypothesis proposes that the ID movement is motivated by an 'intelligent deceiver'.

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