Tuesday, October 11, 2005

It occurred to me that Intelligent Design has got to be the laziest explanation for the origin of life anywhere. All it says is that "we were designed". Professor Myers had an opportunity to ask Michael Behe, a proponent of I.D., for a little more, and was expectedly disappointed:

What was his specific, testable hypothesis for the origin of the blood clotting system? His answer: "It was designed." I hammered a little harder, and said that was neither specific nor testable—when, where, how was it designed? How would I test it or find evidence for it? He mumbled something very peculiar..."That's about origins. We don't speculate about origins."


So they don't mention who designed us, how they did it, when they did it, why they did it. Every religion and mythology gives you some answer to any, if not all, of those questions, but I.D. won't even bother to do that.

Lazy.

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