To: Frumious Bandersnatch
Also every rebuttal to the ID argument that I have seen equates ID with creationism.
I'll try to respond to your comments regarding evolution later, but while I've seen the problem of equating ID with creationism, I've also seen legitimate questions about it. Specifically:
What does ID theory state. How can it be tested and what observations can those tests yeild.
and
How can it be falsified. What observations would indicate that ID is not true?
There's also the question of where the intelligent designer in ID came from, what methods the designer employed in designing and why the designer did anything in the first place. I've not seen a variation of "ID theory" that really covers it.
To: Dimensio
It is true that ID does raise a lot of questions. In a nutshell ID states that the universe and everything in it is the result of an organizing agent - not random chance.
Considering what we know of the universal constants, irreducible complexity, evolution of information, the mathematics, etc., I would say that the IDers have some valid points. Mind, I'm not saying that evolution is not involved in the process, I'm just saying the "random chance" factor is a rather preposterous assumption to make.
I'm not one who is against evolution per se, but rather I am troubled about those whose religion is evolution.
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