[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for your reply!

I've missed you around these threads. Where ya' been?

LOLOL! I've been gone every afternoon helping my husband on his construction project. I did however look in on this thread earlier and it seemed that it might be getting a bit hot, so I withheld comment.

Similarly, there's a group that will support "anything but evolution."

IMHO, when this group of supporters get involved it actually hurts the Intelligent Design arguments by misdirecting it to a theism/atheism debate. It is also wrongheaded because ID is not associated with any theology.

When ID is discussed without theology or ideology it becomes clear that the theory of evolution is incomplete, needs to be updated with state-of-the-art mathematics/physics and that the notion of randomness needs to be abandoned.

[js1138]

...the notion of randomness needs to be abandoned.

I would think it would be quite a coup for ID to demonstrate a correlation between mutation and adaptive success in the absense of selection.

I understand that correlation doesn't prove causation, but I'm at a loss to see how causation could be asserted in the absense of correlation.