"[1][2] It was founded and led by figures associated with the intelligent design movement, such as William A. Dembski and Michael Behe.

Other notable ISCID fellows include philosopher of religion Alvin Plantinga and physics professor and theologian Frank J.

[8] The society featured online chats with intelligent-design proponents and others sympathetic to the movement or interested in aspects of complex systems.

Past chats included people such as Ray Kurzweil, David Chalmers, Stuart Kauffman, Christopher Michael Langan and Robert Wright.

[16] ISCID required that for articles to be accepted into the archive, they "need to meet basic scholarly standards and be relevant to the study of complex systems."