On 6/29/05 9:55 AM, Eric Johnson's electrons arrived as:

> Or is there room for a serious scientific study of the possibility of
> intelligent design in nature?  Is ID that study?  If it isn't (because it is
> flawed in some form), should others--"hard" scientists, perhaps--take up the
> banner?

What banner?  On the subject of cosmic and human origins, science does not
lead to god.  Other disciplines of thought lead to god, but not science.
The banner belongs to those disciplines, not to science.

Science is a process, not a tool.  It isn't some sort of Good Housekeeping
Seal of Approval that is applied retroactively to various notions forged
outside the boundaries of its methodology.  Its conclusions follow the
evidence, not the other way around.  Since the conclusion of Intelligent
Design has not resulted from the process of science, it makes no better
sense to suggest "hard" scientists would spend time studying ID than they
would any other non-scientific idea.


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