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The flaws of ID:

Thank you ID. Once again, a pseudoscience has shown itself up to be a lame duck because of its innate flaws. Intelligent Design is the idea that life is too complicated to have arisen without the intervention of an intelligent and/or supernatural agent. Intelligent Design was supposed to be a rival to the scientific theory of evolution, but ID has such obvious design flaws that it is a wonder they weren't identified ages ago and ID put to bed with Creationism.

The fact is that scientists think too linearly and challenge things in logical, orderly ways, following a forward procedure. But with ID, they threw this out the window and tried to pick apart ID at its roots, with arguments targeted at its religious base. But if scientists or anyone else followed through and worked out the logical' conclusions of ID, then ID would fizzle out, due to the illogical ideas ID would have to study.

Unseen, unnamed creator:
First, to circumvent the argument that ID is a fundamentally religious doctrine (which it is) in order to undermine scientists' attacks and gain secular approval, the word God, specifically a Judeo-Christian God, is left out. God is the implied intelligent and supernatural designer, but without Her explicit mention, interpretation of ID is thus wide open to other religious and non-religious ideas. Thus shouldn't ID proponents be asking us to believe that any other God or being, like Allah, Re-Atum, Gaia, or Izanagi, etc, could have created life? There could be any number of beings that we don't even worship, intelligent robots, and even aliens that could have created us. Extraterrestrials are favoured by many as progenitors of humankind, and any ID taught course would have to include these other ideas or be accused of bias and not teaching the whole story (as they accuse evolutionists). After all, ID is being taught under the academic freedom' banner, so without a specific creator-entity mentioned, all potential non-evolution ideas would have to be considered, including a balanced debate over alien creators, seeding and intervention.

Supernatural what?:
Second, without defining what supernatural means within ID, it opens itself up to the idea of the creation of humans through Boltzmann Brains (spontaneously appearing sentient beings), or mythical Gods and Goddesses, and even magic (magic being just a higher form of science). We thus have the possibility that a pagan witch or sorcerer created the cosmos and life with magic, with attendant Druids,

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