You wrote: "Well....this is certainly discouraging."
But I'm not discouraged! All Facchini is asserting here makes perfect sense to me. First he says that Darwin proponents "erroneously assume" that their theory "explains everything." Obviously it does not. For one thing, it does not explain the origin of biological life, nor can it pinpoint its first emergence with any precision, nor can it explain or account for how natural processes -- for instance, DNA -- can be as "information rich" as they manifestly appear to be.
And so, "Better to recognize that the problem from the scientific point of view remains open."
Second, Facchini definitely suggests that science alone cannot explain life in general, let alone how individual human beings actually experience it. If so, his observation rings deeply true to me.
The issues involved here seem not to have at all been plumbed for their deep seriousness and importance to the future prospects of the human race. But then, in Pop Kultur, such issues tend to be dismissed.
But that is not Facchini's fault. He's simply an observer here. And he gets the main point. And passes it along to us.
Well, FWIW, my two cents. Thanks so much for the ping, xzins!
Me either.. Since ID is Agnostic Creativism at best and a Metaphysical Diversion from Ockhams Razor at worse.. Even slapping some people with the bible won't knock any sense into them.. even with a very big bible..