| I think ID can be many things. After all there is that "intelligent" organizational ability that, for example, helps dust bunnies organize themselves, and then there is God driven ID. So ID isn't just one thing. There's the idea that systems themselves can be intelligent (which also plays in to the idea that perhaps things like computers will eventually organize and perhaps develop machine intelligence, or already have) and then there is the idea that complex systems need a "clockmaker" to drive them, that it takes "intelligence" (and what they really mean by that is their God" to drive the organization)- that's the old Creationist rubric ratcheted up a notch, redressed, and called "ID"- in the political Christian world. To teach the Christian ID in school science class is silly- to posit that there might be intelligence in systems isn't a problem for science, but to posit a "God" to drive it, IS a problem, unless, of course, God is able to be found by scientific means- until then, God belongs in philosophy class, or comparative religion class, where ALL Gods and ALL creation myths can be explored, and their mutual exclusivity and improbability, commented on. |
