Intelligent Design is being demonized by the left in a way ill-befitting a supposedly scientific community.
Sufficiently flamebaiting statement? Read on, my easily lit off friends. Maybe you should trim your wicks.
Intelligent design was invented as a term by creation science, but like other Frankensteins past, it has attained an intellectual life of its own, painfully through the efforts of its designers to force it to carry creation science into the schools.
But intelligent design no longer needs to be about God, but can be shorthand for the concept that the rules of the universe express themselves in a way that can be seen as the long sought teleological Purpose.
Ever think of it that way? Crawl under the blankets and play with this idea...======>
Purpose has become the bugaboo of evolutionists. When evolution is properly understood, it is efficient, although not completely scientific, to say that evolution is completely random, the mere description of the success of a series of chance-selected niche fits.
But suppose that the basic laws of physics, say at a level of superstrings, tend to favor evolution to particular ends, to make niches that are dependent on the nature of the evolved. Suppose niches interact with those that succeed in them?
Suppose we are underestimating the connection and expression of simple iterated laws, as Stephen Wolfram suggests in A New Kind of Science, with its weird and unpredictable patterns growing from simple iterated algorithms? We recognize the patterns, are they any less complex than the life we think we understand?
Something to think about as we superiorly condescend to those benighted ID advocates. Maybe it isn't the Judaeo-Christian G-D, but there might be something there they don't even suspect they've found, and it might someday bite them in the ass.