A Virginia Liberal

Sorry to post again on it, but there was just so much good stuff I didn’t get to last time.
Anyway, here are a few of ID’s one-line arguments, rebutted.

They say… “In the face of irreducable complexity, Intelligent Design is necessary.” By itself, this makes the argument “Because science cannot currently explain everything about absolutely everything, Evolution must be wrong.” However, in context, this says that certain things, like an eye, do not work without every single part, therefore they couldn’t have evolved over time. There is some logic to this, but it’s wrong for a couple of reasons. 1. They can’t come up with a single example. The eye, for example, COULD have evolved slowly-even a light-sensitive patch of skin has been proven useful. Since the argument is that EVERYTHING has to be there in order for it to work, the eye is not a good example. A mouse trap is also used as an example, however, each part of a mousetrap is useful-a piece of wood has uses, shaped pieces of metal are useful, and springs are useful. The thought of putting several useful parts together is pretty basic, so this example doesn’t work either. The ‘Irreducible Complexity’ argument doesn’t work.

They say… “What about the missing link?” ID proponents wish you didn’t know that there is no single chain that everything comes from. If there was, then the so-called ‘missing link’ would be a viable challenge. But there isn’t. There is a missing link in the human line of origins, sort of, but one missing link does not disprove all the other, complete, lines of evolution.

They say… ” ‘Micro’ evolution does not disagree with Christianity, while ‘macro’ evolution does . What? There is no difference in any of Evolution. The supposed division of evolutionary scientists is bullshit, plain and simple. The terms macro and micro evolution only exist because ID’s supporters wish there was a division between two kinds of evolution. There isn’t. There is, however, a division between ideological Christian scientists and scientific Christians. This particular quote shows what we’ve known all along: Intelligent Design is Christian Creationism in a bad disguise. Look at it “… disagree with Christianity…”. Hasn’t Intellligent Design been fighting the perception that ID is just creationism? Woops. Too late.

Just a few of ID’s failings, flaws, glossing overs, and outright lies.