Is Intelligent Design a belief system, or a scientific field of study?
It can be either. ID can be the belief that living things are too complex to have evolved by Darwinian mechanisms or to have spontaneously appeared in the first place. It can also be the study of the extent to which that belief can be scientifically supported. Too many people ignore or fail to see this difference. Also, it is extremely unscientific and anti-intellectual to assume in advance that that belief cannot be scientifically supported.
posted by Larry Fafarman | 4/22/2011 07:08:00 PM
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ID is an attempt by creationists to inject their religious beliefs into the public schools. When the courts said (correctly) that creationism is unabashed Evangelical Protestantism, the creationists merely removed all the overt references to the Judeo-Christian God and replaced them with an otherwise unspecified "Intelligent Designer" (but we all know who they mean, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more).
And that is one of my major objections to "Intelligent Design". It is based on a lie, and we all know who the Prince of Lies is.
This site is amazingly inane. Wow.
TSM, how have you contributed anything worthwhile to the discussion?
TSM, how have you contributed anything worthwhile to the discussion?
TSM, how have you contributed anything worthwhile to the discussion?
TSM, how have you contributed anything worthwhile to the discussion?
TSM, how have you contributed anything worthwhile to the discussion?
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