[js1138]

So my question is, why is it that you spend any time at all either defending your position or attacking alternative positions? Not just on evolution/creation but on any subject? In other words, why do you care?

Why would anyone spend time defending what is true?

Science is the process of accumulating knowledge through observation, hypothesis and research aimed at testing the hypothesis. Science assumes that observable phenomena can be analyzed as the result of sequences of observable phenomena. Call it laws of nature or natural causes -- whatever. The history of science is the history of investigating this assumption.

Science does not assume supernatural causes for the simple reason that they do not suggest any research. The ID movement does not suggest any research. It's a dead end.

[Pete]

Why would anyone spend time defending what is true?

Exactly. What is your answer?

You can describe science and the history of science but isn't science a pointless, meaningless endeavor? If there is no God and we are merely the consequence of evolution, then existence is actually meaningless. It follows that anything we do, including science, is also meaningless.

So, again I ask (and sincerely), why bother?