Reply #50: Nonsense [View All]

The ID community has come up with numerous approaches to promoting the theory, but are never successful at presenting it to a body of scientists knowledgeable in the subject matter of the theory such that it gets any credence.

There is no single place it "actually comes from" other than a belief in a cosmic creator. The derivations of the belief to try to justify the theory have included scientific approaches such as irreducable complexity and purely religious approaches such as biblical literalism. Both of these proposals have been discredited by the scientific community.

ID is valid as a theory, but its evidence chain so highly refutable that it is deemed a useless theory by those that are interested in pursuing productive science. If people want to spend time trying to find scientific evidence to validate ID, that is their perogative, and more power to them.

But it is illogical to teach as ID as scientific fact to students when there is no basis of science in ID. The proponents of this are using ID as a ruse to get around the separation of church and state in the schools so that they can teach Christianity in public institutions.