Is there anything redeeming to Intelligent Design?
No.
This has been another edition of simple answers to simple questions.
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PZ asks "Am I to be the next enemy of the NCSE?":
No.
This has been your April 13, 2010 edition of simple answers to stupid questions.
Most of the rest of the piece is not really worth addressing, but I'll note a rather serious error in PZ's opening paragraph:
I'm a little worried. Jason Rosenhouse…
Billy Dembski writes:
We are often told that “there is no ID research published in peer reviewed journals“. I receive Nature E-Alerts in a number of biological research fields. Almost every time I read the abstracts and even the titles, or spend more time delving into the detail, I hear “…
Pim Van Meurs has an excellent post at the Panda's Thumb that looks at Dembski's design inference and why it is really nothing more than a "god of the gaps" argument, contrary to the common claims of ID proponents that there is a positive way to detect design:
Okay, let's start with how ID tries to…
At Bill Dembski's blog, crandaddy applies intelligent design to driving:
you don’t go about searching for design by looking for designers; you infer its presence from the explanatory inadequecy of epistemic nondesign processes (chance and necessity). This is the heuristic procedure for design…
...well, unless you're talking in the context of engineering, in which case I'd hope that intelligent design is the norm. (But that kind of id doesn't have capitalizations.)
-Rob
ID proponents can always serve as poster children for birth control.
Frankly, Josh,
I think you spent way too much time, and words, answering the question.