[Thatcherite]

You appear to be an ID supporter and you claim that there are "brilliant scientists" who support ID. The most prominent credentialled biologists supporting ID are Behe, Denton, and Meyer. They are all on record endorsing the following in their published books and articles (and Behe endorsed the following under oath at the Dover trial):

• The earth is billions of years old.
• Life on earth is billions of years old.
• All of life on earth shares common descent.
• Evolution has happened. It is a fact.
• The theory of evolution is the best explanation yet found by science for the observed fact of evolution.
• There is no physical evidence suggesting that the Designer has intervened for the last several-million years.
• Behe said under oath at Dover that it would be a good idea to teach schoolchildren that the Designer may be dead. No prominent ID biologist has disavowed that statement of Behe's.
• The Designer did definitely do something (for example to create the bacterial flagellum, a merciless killer of people), but we cannot determine what He did, how He did it, when He did it, where He did it, or why He did it.

Presumably as an enthusiastic supporter of the brilliant scientists who support ID you can fully endorse all of those positions. They reflect your views on the matter, don't they?

[PatrickHenry]

Is creationism really faith-based? Of course it is. There's nothing wrong with that, but there's nothing scientific about it either. Imagine a competent scientist from Japan or India or some other place where no one studied the creation account in Genesis (or its Islamic counterpart). If he were to honestly and systematically consider the objectively verifiable evidence in reaching scientific conclusions, then:

a. it would never occur to him that the world is only 6,000 years old [How Old is the Earth];

b. it would never occur to him that there had been a miles-deep global flood about 3,000 years ago [The Geologic Column and its Implications for the Flood];

c. it would never occur to him that all species lived at the same time [The Fossil Record: Evolution or "Scientific Creation"]; and

d. he would inevitably conclude that all species are related by common descent, and that the relationships are becoming more clear all the time [Tree of Life Web Project ].