“One on One: Broadcast views
Aug. 6, 2008
Ruthie Blum Leibowitz , THE JERUSALEM POST
Q. Speaking of your desire for this kind of particularity, you are a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute that studies and believes in Intelligent Design. How do you, as an Orthodox Jew, reconcile with this kind of generality - with the view of their being a hierarchy with a chief “designer” - while believing in and praying to a very specific God?
A. The important thing about Intelligent Design is that it is not a theory - which is something I think they need to make more clear. Nor is Intelligent Design an explanation. Intelligent Design is a challenge. It's a challenge to evolution. It does not replace evolution with something else.
Q. The question is not whether it replaces evolution, but whether it replaces God.
A. No, you see, Intelligent Design doesn't tell you what is true; it tells you what is not true. It tells you that it cannot be that this whole process was random.”
I added the Qs and As for clarity.
Is there a difference between making films and writing books? Scientists write books too but, of course there's no fiction in them, no, never, no?
You seemed to have overlooked the fact that two members of the staff at the Discovery Institute stated that intelligent design is not a scientific theory.
A peer-reviewed paper is quite different from writing a book, but then anybody with a rudimentary knowledge of science would know that.
“Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This is disillusioning for those untrained in the scientific method, who thus turn to the rigid certainty of the Bible instead. There is something comfortable about a view that allows for no deviation and that spares you the painful necessity of having to think.” — Isaac Asimov
http://www.todayinsci.com/QuotationsCategories/C_Cat/Creationist-Quotations.htm