This is the way creationism ends - Not with a Bang But With A Whimper

William Saletan has a nice piece in Slate that discusses the failing - on what are effectively first principles - of the "Intelligent Design movement (Creationism for the New Century...)

Some choice quotes:

A theory isn't just a bunch of criticisms, even if they're valid. A theory ties things together. It explains and predicts. Intelligent design does neither.

It offers no predictions, scope modifiers, or experimental methods of its own. It's a default answer, a shrug, consisting entirely of problems in Darwinism.

Worth a read.

Posted by esinclai at February 14, 2002 08:04 AM |