[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Whereas today, it has been dressed up in a lab coat and a mail order Ph.D.

The author just lost all credibility, second paragraph in.

[damondonion]

Id is basically nothing more than the correct claim that it is possible to describe a rational system for determining what could and could not arise in haphazard fashion.

You walk up to a Maserati Merak for instance, open the engine compartment (behind the driver) and look at all of those downdraft Webber carburators, velocity stacks, and other complex components and ask yourself the question: "Could this have just sort of happened, i.e. could the wind and rain just sort of blown all of this steel, aluminum, porcelin, rubber etc. into this sort of a thing by haphazard chance?"

And then you realize that the simplest one-celled animal on the planet is vastly more complex than the Maserati engine, and the conclusion is pretty obvious.

In other words, it's only for the purpose of arguing with extreme blockheads like evolutionites that anything as complicated as ID is needed. Most people grasp the idea easily enough.

[Fester Chugabrew]

A few short years ago, nobody had ever heard of “Intelligent Design” (ID).

Right. Not even Leonardo da Vinci.

[Scarchin]

I’m no scientist, but even from the little I have read about ID I can tell that he hasn’t done his homework.

[BibChr]

Yes, “Mindless Chaos” certainly makes much more sense on every level.

< /s >

Plus, it makes one feel so much better about one’s immorality and autonomous idiolatry.

[SampleMan]

If you want a pseudoscientific movement with no firm factual backing, but plenty of blind fealty and zealous agitprop, try Man-made Global Warming.

[TXnMA]

"To believe in both evolution and God is truly to believe in the marvel of marvels."

Ping to an "ID" article with some "real meat on its bones"...

[CzarNicky]

The author has not been touched by his noodelly appendage

[doc30]

Just like Mac Johnson writes in Human Events, most of the ID people here have the intellectual equivalent of bad breath. If these arm-chair scientists, or should I say cdesign proponetists, actually want to do science, they need to get off their asses and do more that shout ‘God did it’ and leave biology to people who know what they are doing. Creationists are a vocal minoity of Christians, an embarrassment to conservatives and are doing a fine job of helping conservatives lose elections.

[MEGoody]

The Left believes, correctly, that Intelligent Design is a political loser

Well, if the left hates it, then it must be a good thing.

By the way, I doubt that it is truly a 'political loser'. Most recent polls that I've seen (posted here on FR in fact) show that more Americans believe in ID or creationism than in evolution.

[drzz]

Darwinism is the not science.

[Just mythoughts]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1925124/posts

Was Hitler a Christian? [Dinesh D’Souza rebuts atheist canard]
Townhall ^ | November 5, 2007 | Dinesh D’Souza

Posted on 11/13/2007 9:33:06 AM PST by rhema

The Heavenly Father that created all souls sure allows more freedom of thought than those of the unholy TOE.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Uh oh.

[Elpasser]

The only “dumb” idea is the one that says that a single cell, with its mind-blowing complexity, managed to organized itself. There is no scientist, anywhere, who can begin to explain methodically how that happened, other than to spin “just so” stories.

[Bringbackthedraft]

I was once informed that only 5% of the human brain is functioning, thus it may still be too early to draw conclusions. If true, with 95% still dormant it would appear that there is so much more to learn, and our future capabilities are way beyond our current comprehension. These ID vs. Evolution arguments/debates will continue for thousands of years. Some where in the very far future, long after we are all gone, man may have the answer. If they are producing/creating life in a laboratory now, what will they be producing 10,000 years from now? Will man eventually become God?

[mountainlyons]

Elect a demorat before it is too late and get more:
Dead kids before they are born (abortion)
illegal criminal immigrants
tax your grandkids into socialism/communism/marxism or worse
free health care that you can not afford
road that are not save to travel on
cities that only criminals have guns
expect the abortion crowd to go after people over 60
... ...

[xzins]

the author is a lost man

[GunRunner]

Scientifically, attributing every aspect of biology to the arbitrary design of a divine tinkerer explains as much about biology as attributing the eruption of volcanoes to the anger of the Lava God would explain geology.

Amen.

[Coyoteman]

One is that, even ten years ago, ID had enough confidence and honesty to go by its birth name, “Creationism.” Whereas today, it has been dressed up in a lab coat and a mail order Ph.D. and is trying to pass itself off as a scientific theory, thus the sudden re-branding as “Intelligent Design.”

Perhaps this had something to do with the U.S. Supreme Court decision that banned creationism from classrooms.

Creationists had to come up with a new dodge, hence ID (an old and largely discarded idea) was dusted off, given a new coat of paint, and sent into the fray.

And ID has now been banned from the classroom by the recent Dover decision. What will we see next from the Dyscovery Institute? Stay tuned boys and girls, those lawyers and PR flacks will come up with something real soon now!

[curiosity]

Excellent article! Thanks for posting.