Centre for Intelligent Design's Headquarters
These are in Glasgow; we checked the premises out soon after CID was launched. They are located in the Wheatsheaf building on Speirs Wharf. This is a converted canal warehouse (quite an impressive six story but modest building). There was no sign for CID outside and it make well be just an accommodation address.
An obvious reason for locating the “headquarters” in Glasgow is convenience for the three staffers involved. It's also convenient for lobbying the politicians in Edinburgh if not Northern Ireland. However, it's been suggested to us, partly with tongue in check, that an alternative reason may be behind the location. The novel “Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks” by the Scottish writer Christopher Brookmyre imagines a plot to introduce creationism into European classrooms via Scotland. The story’s conspirators aim to exploit the perceived weakness of a fledgling Scottish parliament, reasoning that once they have a foot through the door of officialdom in one European nation they will be taken more seriously by others.”
After all, John Langlois has suggested that CID has ambitions in Europe. Scotland is undoubtedly a better bet that the politically unstable Northern Ireland, seen an internationally as a place of violence, backwardness and sectarianism. Whilst Northern Ireland has the advantage that its largest political party is creationist, Noble is involved in a movement to get Scots Christians into politics. Acceptance of creationism appears to be growing amongst Scotland's Calvinistic Christians, especially in the Highlands and Islands.
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Introduction to the Centre for Intelligent Design
How Many People are Behind the Centre for Intelligent Design?
Timing of the Centre for Intelligent Design
Who Runs and Organises the Centre for Intelligent Design?
Professor Norman Nevin OBE
Dr Alastair Noble
Dr David Galloway
John Langlois OBE, Centre for ID Guernsey
Peter Loose
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