Let's study ID: current declaration. (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, June 07, 2024, 17:25 (105 days ago) @ David Turell

ID defined:

https://evolutionnews.org/2024/06/luskin-why-intelligent-design-is-the-truly-scientific...

"ID uses the scientific method, is testable, and is perfectly happy when it yields a natural explanation for any given phenomenon. It’s also open to explanations that recognize the activity of a designing mind, when evidence supports that conclusion. The ID scientist who is a religious believer believes whatever he does for reasons of his own — not because he “used” ID to support his view. I would add, that’s why ID proponents are as interestingly diverse as they are, which is one reason ID (compared with apologetics) has the credibility it does.

"In the hands of the atheist scientist, on the other hand, a codicil is added to MN [methodological naturalism] that arbitrarily excludes seeing intelligent activity behind phenomena in biology and cosmology. That codicil, a matter of personal or philosophical preference, binds and blinds the scientist in a way that is NOT scientific. ID, as Luskin explains, is thus the superior, more open, and truly scientific tool."

Comment: belief in a God is up to the individual.