[zook]

Please, I don't want to start a brawl or anything, but what sort of *scientific* response does "intelligent design" offer when confronted with the question, "what created the designer?"

[L98Fiero]

Please, I don't want to start a brawl or anything, but what sort of *scientific* response does "intelligent design" offer when confronted with the question, "what created the designer?"

Well, the point is that U of I has banned such discussions. How are answers to question like yours to be answered if universities ban the discussion of such concepts?

[Sopater]

what sort of *scientific* response does "intelligent design" offer when confronted with the question, "what created the designer?"

The scientific response would be "let's see if we can find out", certainly not "don't go there". The scientific community has not been able to answer the question "what caused a spontanious abiogenesis", but that has not stopped anyone from trying to find out.

[Neoliberalnot]

Similarly, if spontaneous creation is your theory, who created the matter from which the universe/earth was made?

[Anthem]

Please, I don't want to start a brawl or anything, but what sort of *scientific* response does "intelligent design" offer when confronted with the question, "what created the designer?"

Had this same question when I was about 8. Realized that the whole universe was probably just an experiment in a fishbowl and then realized that that fishbowl was in a universe that was itself in a fishbowl... Soon I was running around outside shouting at the beings looking into my fishbowl that they were just in a fishbowl too. I was soon apprenended and taken to see a bunch of doctors who at first couldn't get me to calm down. One finally gave me a cigarette to calm me down, but I was only 8 so I got sick and puked all over their shoes. Then I asked to go home, having forgotton all about the fishbowls.