Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Intelligent Design: IDing ID (Doubt and About)

Chris Mooney

Intelligent Design: IDing ID (Doubt and About)


So substantively, we have to admit that ID differs significantly from "creation science." Since young earth creationists themselves frequently made arguments about the presence of design in living things, we might even say that ID represents "creation science" stripped of everything but design arguments (as well as various critiques of evolutionary theory). In fact, it has often been noted that ID verges on intellectual vacuity: At least young earth creationists had their own detailed account of how life on earth came into being.

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