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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
- 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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