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Originally posted by lendaddy
Cute, but intelligent design is not a Christian or "Flying Spaghetti Monster" thing. It is merely the theory that there was some design involved in everything by something. Sorta like genetic engineering on our part, but on a larger scale. The scientific side of it has NOTHING to do with religion.
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The problem with ID, though, is that it is not a scientific theory. There is no "scientific side" to ID. It predicts nothing. It explains nothing. It has no useful purpose other than to attempt to cast doubts on evolutionary theory (which it does not do).
The nail in the coffin of all of this rhetoric on teaching creationism or ID in classrooms would be to go ahead and permit it to be taught and then watch it fall apart as people actually tried to produce a textbook on "Creationism" of "ID". It can't be done. ID and Creationism are simply "beliefs" with no scientific evidence to back them up.
Mike