Intelligent Design Theory: Science or Religion?

Here purple threads that Tyrian vats have dyed
Are woven in, and subtle delicate tints
That change insensibly from shade to shade.
So when the sunshine strikes a shower of rain,
The bow's huge arc will paint the whole wide sky,
And countless different colours shine, yet each
Gradation dupes the gaze, the tints that touch
So similar, the extremes so far distinct.

Ain't Ovid beautiful? Magical even.

Eludes categorisation.

UK UPDATE

The Association for Science Education, an organization for UK science teachers has issued the following statement on Intelligent Design:

or explanations to support it.

Furthermore it is not accepted as a competing scientific theory by the international science community

nor is it part of the science curriculum.

It is not science at all.

The most striking of Armstrong's revelations are that nobody until recently treated the Bible as literally true, and that fundamentalists - far from defying science and modernity - reflect and embody the arrogance of scientism and the seductions of assumed certainty.

Great minds have leapt to the challenge of making sense of scripture. The multiplicity of readings has intrigued them. The stories inside the Bible have inspired and enthralled readers - especially the sacred histories of exile and sufferings that spoke to the souls of oppressed Jews, enslaved blacks and Puritans. Above all, perhaps, every ambitious reader craves the chance to reach, however tentatively, for evidence about a remote and numinous past. Whatever its human failings, the Bible takes us as close as most of us can get into the baffling, infuriating, subtle, childish, cosmic, infinite, eternal and incomprehensible mind of God.

Ranginui and Papatuanuku prevented light from reaching the world because of their close embrace, and their offspring lived in a world of darkness and ignorance between the bodies of their parents. And they plotted against their parents in order to let light into the world.

It is said that some of the sons decided that their situation could be remedied only if they separated their parents, so that Ranginui would be pushed up to become the sky and Papatuanuku remain as their Earth. They set about their task. Tane it was who finally rendered them apart by resting his shoulders upon Papatuanuku and thrusting his legs upwards and pushing Ranginui to the sky. By this deed Tane, of many names, came also to be known as Tane-te-toko-o-te-rangi (Tane the prop of the heavens).

For why, this lumpe of flesh and bones, this bodie, is not wee;
Wee are a thing, which earthly eyes denyed are to see.
Our soul is wee, endewd by God with reason from above;
Our bodie is but as our house, in which wee worke and move.
T'one part is common to us all, with God of heaven himself;
The t'other common with the beastes, a vyle and stinking pelf.
The t'one bedect with heavenly gifts and endlesse; t'other grosse,
Frayle, filthie, weake and borne to dye as made of earthly dross.
Now looke how long this clod of clay to reason dooth obey,
So long for men by just desert account our selves wee may.
But if wee suffer fleshly lustes as lawlesse lordes to reigne,
Than are wee beastes; wee are no men, wee have our name in vaine.
And if wee be drownd in vice that feeling once bee gone,
Then may it well of us bee sayd, wee are a block or stone.

There is an invisible, undetectable pink dwarf sitting on my shoulder

I can name several well known scientific principles that evolution violates.

blatham wrote:

There is an invisible, undetectable pink dwarf sitting on my shoulder

If undetectable, how did you detect it?

If invisible, how is it pink?

blatham wrote:

There is an invisible, undetectable pink dwarf sitting on my shoulder

If undetectable, how did you detect it?

If invisible, how is it pink?

the weight he feels on his shoulders.

So when the sunshine strikes a shower of rain,
The bow's huge arc will paint the whole wide sky,
And countless different colours shine, yet each
Gradation dupes the gaze, the tints that touch
So similar, the extremes so far distinct.