What is wrong with Intelligent Design?
Its based on a fable, relies on blind faith, is untestable and non verifiable, and there is no body of evidence in existence to prove it.
Its based on a fable, relies on blind faith, is untestable and non verifiable, and there is no body of evidence in existence to prove it.
Regarding your allegation that ID is an untestable exercise in blind faith that is based on a fable: This tells me more about you than it tells me about ID.
No body of evidence in existence to prove it? The evidence is all around you -- you have to be blind not to see it. Here we have one universe that hangs together "just so," and needs to hang together in just that precise fashion in order to "keep on ticking." Change one tiny little parameter, and the whole thing would come crashing down.
And you think this sort of thing can be the result of an evolutionary process? For one thing, an evolutionary process is temporally linear and sequential. But the totality of all conditions required for the emergence of life had to be "just so" and "all at once" for life to arise in the first place. Only then can we begin to speak of the evolution of species.
I don't dispute the fact that the universe and life itself "evolve" in time, only that ID may well be correct in its conjecture that the universe and life evolve as a guided process. That is, there is a "guide to the system."
ID doesn't insist that this guide be God the Creator. (You could be an agnostic or an atheist and not disqualify yourself as an intelligent design researcher.) The sought-for guide to the system might be space aliens ("panspermia theory"), an informative agent of unknown/unspecified type possibly of natural origin, an algorithm, etc.
ID conjectures only that there is such a guide -- which seems eminently reasonable to me, given the evidence of one single, dynamic, integrated universe that appears to have been "primed" and "fine-tuned" for the eventual emergence and sustenance of life.
My two cents, FWIW.