Intelligent Design Theory: Science or Religion?

Intelligent design holds that some aspects of life can't be explained by evolutionary theory and are best attributed to an unseen designer.

"The challenge for us is that some of the public is being confused by this intelligent design thing," said Kirk Johnson, chief curator at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

"Intelligent design is clearly not a scientific theory. It's sort of anti-science, in a way, because it says that the world is too complicated, too hard to figure out, so there must be a supernatural answer."

"It's the opposite of science."

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I'm sorry to have to say it but that stuff has been gone over ad nauseum.It is another simple variation on the "Yes it is"/"No it isn't" style of debate.

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Are you assuming that there is no science of the "inner man".That the beliefs are not similar to the benches and equipment and parquet floors etc which one sees in science laboratories.

And that's how it went as the participants in this exercise finally bid farewell to Dr. Michael Behe, a Lehigh University biochemist who is one of the top intelligent design jihadists. He was on the stand, officially, for three days. It only seemed a lot longer.
At one point, rationalizing why he hasn't produced any peer-reviewed articles in science journals, Behe said his book, "Darwin's Black Box," had been peer-reviewed. Under cross-examination, he said he had suggested the reviewers to his publisher. The publisher, though, picked another on his own, Behe said.
The reviewer, chosen by the book's editor because his wife had taken a class from him, was a biochemist in the veterinary school of the University of Pennsylvania.
Veterinary school?
OK, anyway, the guy did review the book.
Sort of.
The guy wrote an article, produced by Rothschild, about his involvement with "Darwin's Black Box" after it came out, saying his review consisted of a 10-minute phone conversation with the book's editor. He said it sounded "interesting."
So, what came of Behe's three days on the witness stand?
He said some of the stuff in cells and such is designed because it looks like it was designed. But there's other stuff that looks designed that wasn't designed. And yet there's other stuff, we don't know what it is and you probably don't want to know.
Oh, and the identity of the designer doesn't matter. Could be God, or a cosmic Versace, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
At one point, Rothschild asked Behe whether he thought the human body was "a beautiful structure."
Behe paused.
"I'm thinking of examples," he said.

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