What would your side say? It just came from nowhere by magic?,br> Whether you admit it or not, TOE relies on belief in the unknown just the same as creation, even more so. You cannot prove that intelligence does not exist anywhere else, you cannot prove that other realms do not exist outside this universe.
In fact, we can prove that we DO believe that there could be intelligence out there because we spend billions looking for it.
What you evo's just can't get through your heads is that ID does not neccesarly mean God. If fact, after DNA was discovered (by a evolutionist) he changed his opinion and suggested spores created by other inteligent life could have drifted to earth from another gallaxy.
I should hope not. The design is quite shoddy.
Friedrich Miescher said that?
BTW, you should know there's another guy called Nathan Zachary, from Manitoba, posting on Free Dominion. By an amazing coincidence, he signed up for Free Dominion the exact same day you registered on Free Republic! I found a considerable number of America-bashing posts from him up there, relating to the cross-border outbreak of mad-cow. I decided I better warn you because while we have many wonderful Canadian posters here on FR, we don't like the kind of person who posts here and bashes the US elsewhere. And if you got mistaken for this other Nathan Zachary, people would think that's what you were doing.
Spores, or organic molecules drifting in space are not intelligent designers. Everything in your body except hydrogen has a history inside a supernova. If the seeds of life drifted to earth, their history has just been pushed back, not explained.
As for what "our" side says in court, we shall see. All that's really necessary is to demonstrate that ID advocates are on record as being motivated by religion.
It is quite acceptable to me to have science books prefaced with a statement that many things are yet to be explained. I think it's a shame that kids might think we are so advanced that no really interesting problems are left for future generations to solve.
The problem with ID is that it doesn't suggest any methods for researching these problems.