How Can an Atheist Defend Intelligent Design?

In 2009, when I was a philosophy professor at University of Colorado Boulder, I published a book with Broadview Press, Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design. In the book, I show respect for what the proponents of intelligent design are up to. I engage with them as intellectually respectable fellow inquirers, not as opponents in a culture war. In the first decade of the 2000s, the topic of intelligent design had so much heightened emotion and vitriol associated with it — I’d like to think that my book played a role in calming the tensions.