| Coca-Cola said: Was ID inspired by religious people? I thought there were many non-religious scientists working on ID. I could be mistaken. I thought many Christians didn't like ID theory/idea. Correct me if I'm wrong please. If ID is religiously driven then getting a class at a public school would be very very difficult to no chance at all. |
yes, ID was inspired by religious fundamentalists. If you look at the website misterd provided (antievolution.org), it's pretty much entirely funded and propogated by fundamentalist christians (and michael behe who makes truckloads of money telling FC that evolution is wrong, god made us!). When a group tried to get "Of People And Pandas" put into school eductation it fell flat on it's face pretty much for the reasons cited. It was trying to teach creationism as science, and when asked to back it up with science they failed. They even brought in Michael Behe himself, who got his ass handed to him on the stand (I'll talk about that in a sec for anyone interested).
ID isn't a scientific movement, it's a religious movement trying to undermine science that it sees as threatening. Some FCs don't like ID because they reject any evolution outright, and ID seems to suggest that god just helped evolution and filled in any gaps (though in actuality, it's purpose is to critisize evolution as a whole).
As for Michael Behe, in the court case deciding whether or not ID should be taught in schools he went on the stand and went on his spiel about irreducible complexity. He cited the immune system as one irreducibly complex system. He said that no one knows how it could've evolved, it would have to be created as a whole. To which the prosecution laid out 50 or so articles in science journals, and other research papers which actually described how the immune system could evolve. To which behe replied "Well those studies aren't conclusive." The prosecution asked "Have you read any of these studies?" and under oath behe had to reply "no". The judge commented that he felt sorry that none of those scientists had made nearly as much money off thier papers as behe had off his one book. But that gets at the heart of the problem.
ID isn't a scientific theory, it's just fingers in the ears, screaming really loud hoping that no one will listen to these evolutionists. It proposes nothing tangible, it makes no predictions, and has no means of testing it. All it states is "evolution is flawed, there must be an intelligent creator!" who just happens to be the abrahamic god.
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