But just because something is being more intensely debated doesn't make it correct. For instance, Islam is being talked about all the time right now - and rightfully so. But that doesn't make Islam correct.
The public is not made up of ignoramuses. But the public can sometimes be easily misled. That is the case with ID.
Evolutionary biology is not going to disappear anytime soon. Neither is Christianity. But as more and more people learn about what evolutionary biology is, they will come to realize that it is not a threat to their belief in God.
The reason so many people are initially attracted to ID is because they do not approve of the way the left uses evolution as a means to diminish God, faith, and morality. But those are political problems, not scientific ones. Evolution, left to itself, is only a materialistic mechanism without any political undertones. Once people realize this, then the movement to make ID a scientific idea will fade away.
Right now people are sorting this all out and things will get emotional on both sides. But things will eventually settle down, with faith and science both strengthened.
Well stated, although I would add "without religious undertones" as well.
Right now people are sorting this all out and things will get emotional on both sides. But things will eventually settle down, with faith and science both strengthened.
I can only hope you are right.
There is that of course but you shouldn't downplay the idea that life is far more than merely the material. Nor should you underestimate the idea of design, specifically an intellegent design buried in the seeds of life, below evolution. There is a powerful self organizing force in the universe; where does that come from?
BTW, thanks for your reasoned response, one sees so little of that on these threads.