From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Wed Sep 28 2005 - 13:34:26 UTC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9452500/page/2/
"The most basic problem [with ID] is that it's utterly boring," said William
Provine, a science historian at Cornell University in New York. "Everything
that's complicated or interesting about biology has a very simple
explanation: ID did it."
Evolution was and still is the only scientific theory for life that can
explain how we get complexity from simplicity and diversity from uniformity.
ID offers nothing comparable. It begins with complexity — a Supreme Being —
and also ends there. The explanations offered by ID are not really
explanations at all, scientists say. They're more like last resorts. And,
scientists argue, there is a danger in pretending that ID belongs next to
evolution in textbooks.
"It doesn't add anything to science to introduce the idea that God did it,"
Provine told LiveScience. Intelligent design "would become the death of
science if it became a part of science."
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