Judge strikes down ID policy in Dover, PA
Wednesday, December 21st, 2005“I think the big lesson is, let’s go to work and really develop this theory and not try to win this in the court of public opinion,” Dr. Dembski said. “The burden is on us to produce.”
Buried way down deep you can find this quote in a NYTimes article that really explains why Judge John Jones ruled the way he did. It is also one of 2 reasons why I could never get with the ID. Without a testable hypothesis ID has yet to elevate to science an remains stuck in the doldrums of philosophy.
The other reason I disagree with ID is that it fails to say who’s intelligence is responsible for the design. Conveniently so in my book to get around Constitutional issues in school. In fact it does not preclude that an alien or a time traveler is responsible for life on earth. I’m not making this up. So even on a religious level this is just lacking. If the idea is promote Christianity in the public arena, it doesn’t even do that because it specifically fails to mention Christ.
Judge Jones, a Republican appointed by President Bush, concluded that intelligent design was not science, and that in order to claim that it is, its proponents admit they must change the very definition of science to include supernatural explanations.
(emphasis mine)
That’s not only obvious in this case but the entire ID movement itself. In fact, I thought I read somewhere that is exactly what one school is actually doing redefining the meaning of science so that ID could be taught in the school as science. (links forth coming)
