[jennyp]

Why is it that Darwinists always try to revert to religion when discussing ID? ID is not about religion, it is about scientific evidence that is contrary to Darwinism that implies a designed nature to life.

Dawkins and others of the Church of Darwin will unashamedly say that there is the appearance of design in nature then attempt to reason it away with evolution. However, if the mechanism of evolution doesn't hold water you are left dealing with the issue of a designed universe. That is what ID is all about. It points out that the Darwinian mechanism cannot account for the variation of life we see it today. Being that there is no other rational idea for the formation of the universe and life you must accept the concept that maybe a designer exists.

ID doesn't move past that point. It doesn't try to say who the designer is, that would be a discussion for the theologians to take up.

The Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture (the ID movement's sugar daddy) disagrees with you (at least circa 1998 - now the "S" word is no longer invoked on their website, probably out of embarrassment :-):

Life After Materialism

For more than a century, science attempted to explain all human behaviour as the subrational product of unbending chemical, genetic, or environmental forces. The spiritual side of human nature was ignored, if not denied outright.

This rigid scientific materialism infected all other areas of human knowledge, laying the foundations for much of modern psychology, sociology, economics, and political science. Yet today new developments in biology, physics, and artificial intelligence are raising serious doubts about scientific materialism and re-opening the case for the supernatural.

What do these exciting developments mean for the social sciences that were built upon the foundation of materialism? This project brings together leading scholars from the natural sciences and those from the humanities and social sciences in order to explore what the demise of materialism means for reviving the various disciplines. 

How to join Discovery Institute

-- CRSC website, circa 1998

[lews]

Please read the web page carefully and identify who the "designer" in ID is. It is intentionally not identified because that is a theological issue. Hence, your statement that they don't agree is not correct.