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'''Intelligent Design''' claims to be a scientific alternative to [[Evolution]] for explaining how life came be on Earth. In reality, it is nothing more than a dishonest attempt to evade separation of church and state laws in the United States after Creationism was ruled a violation of them. Several creationist books suddenly changed their terminology after this ruling. "Creation" changed to "ID", "God" changed to "intelligent | '''Intelligent Design''' claims to be a scientific alternative to [[Evolution]] for explaining how life came be on Earth. In reality, it is nothing more than a dishonest attempt to evade separation of church and state laws in the United States after Creationism was ruled a violation of them. Several creationist books suddenly changed their terminology after this ruling. "Creation" changed to "ID", "God" changed to "intelligent cause/agent", etc. | ||
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Revision as of 04:26, 24 February 2008
A.K.A. Creationism in a clown suit.[1]
Definition
Intelligent Design claims to be a scientific alternative to Evolution for explaining how life came be on Earth. In reality, it is nothing more than a dishonest attempt to evade separation of church and state laws in the United States after Creationism was ruled a violation of them. Several creationist books suddenly changed their terminology after this ruling. "Creation" changed to "ID", "God" changed to "intelligent cause/agent", etc.
Content
ID proposes that life is too complex to have evolved naturally. Therefore some higher power must have intervened to specifically create those features, described as "irreducibly complex". In other words, it is a colossal appeal to ignorance fallacy.
The primary argument is that taking the structure apart causes it to not function. However, this claim is misleading at best. As has been proven, the components of the structure don't perform that particular function but they do often perform other functions.