"...There have been numerous criticisms of the different versions of the teleological argument. Commonly, critics argue that any implied designer need not have the qualities commonly attributed to the God of classical theism. Moreover, there is a great diversity of spiritual and religious beliefs concerning the identity and attributes of such a Creator, which change from one society to another and from one period of human history to another.
Although the teleological argument clearly belongs, by its very nature, to the domain of philosophy and not to that of science, beginning in the 1990s, neo-creationism and intelligent design authors have tried to disguise it as science, avoiding naming the designer to get it taught in public school science classes. But, in 2005, a U.S. Federal Court ruled that intelligent design is a religious argument and is not science, and was being used to give pseudoscientific support for creationism, the religious belief in a designer..." |
