Intelligent Design is...

[Boojatta]

Poll question: Intelligent Design is...

[Kutjara]

1. None of the above:

It's religion wearing ill-fitting scientific clothes. It's a pack of lies and dogma, dressed up as a theory. It is not a religion of peace, but of unthinking dogma. It is, in the words of Wolfgang Pauli, so meaningless it's not even wrong.

[uriel1972]

2. What the above poster said so well:)

[Monkeyman]

3. Intelligent Design has a major problem

The Outback has just found what could be the missing link. A child with ape like appearence and human brain hmmmmmm

[Random_Australian]

8. You call that a major problem for ID?

I would have thought the fact that it can never become a theory was a much bigger problem.

A MUCH bigger problem.

[cyborg_jim]

13. Erm, what?

Firstly humans are apes - a child with an ape-like appearance is therefore a redundant statement.

Secondly the whole 'missing link' thing is just a big fallacy - the basic tactic of a evolutionary theory detractor when presented with two pieces of evidence towards a evolutionary path is to demand a third piece to sit in the middle. When that third piece arrives they will then demand two more pieces to fit into the two new gaps that have appeared, and so forth.

Lastly there simply cannot be living 'missing links' by definition. A missing link MUST be an ancestor, so unless you're proposing this kid is pretty old he cannot be an ancestor of homo sapiens.

[saltpoint]

4. Intelligent design is the sheep's costume the theocratic wolf wears

to school curriculum meetings.

Defining what it is is less the point than stating what it is not. And what it is not is Science.

[Evoman]

5. I had to vote other:

There was no option for "Fucking stupid and without merit, and in contradiction to every single piece of evidence we have found"

[hunter]

6. Intelligent design is a good bicycle.

The other kind? Watch a few c-sections, then decide. If babies are supposed to come out there, you'd think the opening would always be large enough, wouldn't you?

But yeah, I like the clothing explanation: "Intelligent Design" is religion dressed up in a thrift store lab coat, it's "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV."

If you find something you can't explain in evolutionary biology, it means you can't explain it, it doesn't mean there is a supernatural explanation, it means you've found some work to do.

[Evoman]

7. Lol...there is a lot of stuff that fits in really nicely

in evolutionary biology....evolution fits in nicely with continental drift, genetics, paleontology, etc. And when we find some anomoly, the creationist ignore all the data we do have and point at the anomoly and say, "SEE EVOLUTION IS NOT REAL".

And just feel like saying.."Dude, give us another couple of years. We'll figure it out"

[immoderate]

9. So a lot of IDers just say evolution is part of the design.

It's a catch all.

--IMM

[hunter]

10. In doing so they deprive themselves of any consequence.

Okay, God made the Big Bang. Does that change any of the science? No. So what's the point again of "Intelligent Design?"

Otherwise they are the sort of creationist who believes in God the Tinkerer:

"Once upon a time a bunch of apes were dancing around a big black rectangular obelisk..."

That's a very shallow sort of faith.



Yes, it's true! God told me to smack our neighbors with that bone!

[immoderate]

11. The point of Intelligent Design...

It's to dilute the primacy of science. You know, it's to allow the cold, wet, nose of the proverbial camel into the tent perched on the slippery slope.:)

--IMM

[TallahasseeGrannie]

12. As opposed, say, to

unintelligent design?

[Dogmudgeon]

14. The Revelation of the Cosmic Mother to the Young God

or, Jehovah as a Boy (pace Björk):

"I don't care that there's no such thing as Intelligent Design -- clean up your universe right this instant!"

--p!