The Municipality of Istanbul’s conference on intelligent design apparently turned out to be a precedent-setting hit. We can’t think of anything comparable in the Middle East. At least one follow up conference is planned. (See this post from earlier today.) Some photos have just come in that illustrate the impressive venue:

Discovery Senior Fellow David Berlinski flew in from Paris to describe the failures of Darwinian theory.

Some 500 people participated–scientists, students, government officials and journalists. There were interviews in the Turkish and European press, plus the Canadian Broadcast Corporation.

Noted Oxford University professor John Lennox was droll as well as informative in his discussion of mathematics and information theory.