What is Intelligent Design?

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Oh noes, this sciency stuff means people are gettin edumacated and not worshipping our zombie god any more.

What shall we do? Well the sciency people must be wrong.

They disagree with me and god tolded me I'm right, so they must be wrong.

He did too!

Ok, let's prove they're wrong. Ooh, I know, half an eye would be no use to anyone, therefore it can't have evolved.

Nyer nyer, stoopid scientismos, we win the internet!


Wait, what? You've already answered that?

Ok, what use is half an outboard motor? None! Ha! Therefore it didn't evolve, did it?

What do you mean, "No one claims it did"? Jeez, you scientists are picky, aren't you?

Ok, What use is half a mousetrap?

No, ok, what use is half a flagellum?

Ha, gotcha!

You can take your type two secretory system and your "Which of the many flagella do you mean?" and shove them where angels fear to tread, because we just asked a question that Joe Sixpack won't immediately spot as being flawed, therefore zombie god!

And science is all about asking questions, right? Therefore we're doing science! Woot!


What are the claims the IDiots make?

This can be summed up in one.

If the evolutionary pathway to a given structure is not immediately obvious to Michael Behe then it cannot have evolved, therefore biblegod.

The true wonder of ID is that anyone ever took it seriously for longer than it took to read that last sentence.