Religion & Law

Give That Man a Star

By John Pieret

Brian Warren is a self-described "government employee" in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He has some pithy things to say about ID in a Letter to the Editor that are worth repeating:

ID's only research agenda is to attempt to undermine the teaching of evolutionary theory by distorting both the quantity and substance of the evidence that it explains; it doesn't generate new avenues of research, and in the end the answer to any question is: "We don't know, so stop trying to find out and insert God here."

In philosophical terms, ID is an idea that has infinite explanatory power but zero information content.

Full post as published by Thoughts in a Haystack on April 04, 2009 (boomark / email).