Laureates Initiative" (PDF). The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. September 9, 2005 . http://media.ljworld.com/pdf/2005/09/15/nobel_letter.pdf . Retrieved 2007-07-19 .   The September 2005 statement by 38 Nobel laureates stated that: "Intelligent design is fundamentally unscientific; it cannot be tested as scientific theory because its central conclusion is based on belief in the intervention