Intelligent Design

mini
Mon, 08 Aug 2005 19:21:38 +0000

Pafather -

You are misreading me. I have no problem with God, nor even with the idea of intelligent source. Since neo-Darwinian evolutionary theories, as they have changed through time, have been able to account quite well for “seeming design”, the extra actor might indeed exist, but is unnecessary for the account.

I find it unnecessary to find a falsifiable hypothesis for an intelligent source. If it floats your boat, or mine, that’s okay with me. It may even be true (I happen to think it is, but that’s irrelevant). It just isn’t science.

Kluge - it all amounts to the idea that there is “irreducible complexity”. Demsky and others of the ID crowd tried to find them in various places (immune systems, etc.), but in many instances, virtually as soon as they thought they’d found them, another scientist would pop up and “reduce it” for 'em.