One of our regular commenters explains why they stick with ID:<\/p>\n
ID is a perfectly reasonable alternative to \u201cit just happened, that\u2019s all.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yet that “reasonable alternative” is just\u00a0“it happened like that because it was Intelligently Designed<\/em>“. ID as yet has no specifics as to who, when, what, how, why etc.<\/p>\n
So it seems to me that said commenter has just replaced “it just happened” with another phrase that means exactly the same thing but now they can be an intellectually fulfilled\u00a0theist.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
It just happened == It was just designed that way<\/p>\n
It adds nothing to our understanding, but presumably it counts as an explanation to ID supporters whereas “it just happened” does not. And as it’s mostly about point-scoring in the non-reality based community this appears to be sufficient for them to satisfy their intellectual thirst for “truth”. Or am I wrong? Is their search for “truth” a sham, they already know the answers?<\/p>\n
ID seems mostly concerned with what evolution cannot do. As such it has no explanatory power of it’s own to detail what actually happened. So this seems to undercut the claim that it’s a perfectly reasonable alternative to “it just happened”.<\/p>\n
Given that there are as many versions of ID as there are ID supporters I’d ask each specifically what it was that “just happened” and how ID is a reasonable alternative to that? Do ID supporters actually consider ID an actual explanation<\/em> for anything at all? If so, what? And how does that compare to the reality based community’s explanation for the same thing?<\/p>\n
I’ve been deliberately coy about the thing it was that “just happened”. In fact, the commenter who made the claim made it without reference to a specific “it”. I want to encourage IDers to identify for themselves that “it”, and explain why adding “it was designed” adds to our knowledge, why what is described is a perfectly reasonable alternative to and detail who is saying in the first place that “it just happened”, whatever “it” happens to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of our regular commenters explains why they stick with ID: ID is a perfectly reasonable alternative to \u201cit just happened, that\u2019s all.\u201d Yet that “reasonable alternative” is just\u00a0“it happened like that because it was Intelligently Designed“. ID as yet … Continue reading