[Rudder]

Faith alone does not a scientist make. You're out of your league in a discussion about science. You're invoking for authority the statements of personal faith held by esteemed scientists, statements which are not the conclusions of science but of private faith. If your interpretation of the meaning of these statements were correct and honest, then all of these scientists would just have hung it since they all arrived at the answer to all the mysteries in the universe: "The creator did it."

You're guilty of shabby intellectualism.

[RussP]

Newton’s statement about intelligent design was written in The Principia, perhaps the single most important scientific treatise of all time. It was a simple unequivocal statement of fact as Newton saw it, and your attempt to twist it is pathetic.

By the way, the “God did it” explanation is really not much less “scientific” than “evolution did it.” Read what a Nobel-laureate physicist says about it:

Much of present-day biological knowledge is ideological. A key symptom of ideological thinking is the explanation that has no implications and cannot be tested. I call such logical dead ends antitheories because they have exactly the opposite effect of real theories: they stop thinking rather than stimulate it. Evolution by natural selection, for instance, which Charles Darwin originally conceived as a great theory, has lately come to function more as an antitheory, called upon to cover up embarrassing experimental shortcomings and legitimize findings that are at best questionable and at worst not even wrong. Your protein defies the laws of mass action? Evolution did it! Your complicated mess of chemical reactions turns into a chicken? Evolution! The human brain works on logical principles no computer can emulate? Evolution is the cause! —Robert B. Laughlin, Nobel-laureate physicist