I've already pointed out the illogic of Phillip Johnson and other IDers,
when they claim that mainstream science rejects ID because of a
philosophical bias against the supernatural, while also claiming that ID
doesn't necessarily involve the supernatural.
Another, related point has just occurred to me. It's pretty obviously
really, but I haven't seen it made before. Many mainstream scientists are
involved in or support SETI, which is the search for evidence of ID in
extraterrestrial radio signals. Clearly, these scientists are open to the
possibility of an intelligent alien species, and some IDers have
specifically stated that the intelligent designer(s) of their ID hypothesis
could in principle be an alien species. Such scientists include the late
Carl Sagan, who was a very much a mainstream scientist and evolutionist.
Thus the claim that mainstream science rejects ID in nature because of a
philosophical bias against intelligent causes can easily be seen to be
nonsense. Mainstream science rejects ID in nature because there is no
evidence for it.
Richard Wein (Tich)
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