Diversity of thought, that's what ID allows for. There's the Invisible Pink Unicorn proponents who I respect, then there's my faction: The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (blessed be his noodly appendages).
Because after all if you posit design without defining the designer, it's little different (and just as provable) as any superstitious belief.
Excuse me now, I have to go sacrifice a goat to the Rain God for clear skys this weekend, just in case.
Actually, it's less provable. If I have a superstition that doing a dance in my yard will bring rain, you have a set of falsification criteria to disprove that superstition -- all you have to do is show no statistically significant difference in rainfall during periods when I danced in my yard and when I didn't (controlling for my cheating by checking the weather before I danced, of course, or other factors such as me only being home during the rainy season and thereby being more likely to dance when it's more likely to rain).
ID doesn't even have the falsification criteria going for it.
<< Diversity of thought, that's what ID allows for. There's the Invisible Pink Unicorn proponents who I respect, then there's my faction: The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (blessed be his noodly appendages). >>
Hah! As a fundamentalist Pink-Unicornist, I cannot sit by and allow this blasphemy of diversity of opinion on this crucial topic. Let me ask you a question: If you died tonight, and you were standing before St. Pegasus, asking to get into Unicorn-heaven -- and St. Pegasus asked you, "Why should I let you in?" -- do you really think your pasta-heresy will help you then?????
And BTW -- the Pink Unicorns are invisible to the eyes of the heretics.