Rebecca Fitzgerald said:

> Bottom line - if we only believed those things that could be proven, our
> lives would certainly be dreary little affairs, wouldn't they? 


If we were to discard all those human beliefs for which there is no real evidence, we would have truly rid ourselves of "life's dreary little affairs."

Not to paint you with this broad brush, Rebecca -- my apologies.  But your comment above reminds me of how I've often heard supernaturalists deride science for the arrogance of "having an answer for everything."  But in fact, science has the opposite -- a question for everything, and relatively few answers.   That makes for an incredibly tantalizing and mysterious world to behold.  ID, on the other hand, is really thinly disguised Creationism which purports to know everything about human origins, not to mention the how-and-why of the cosmos.  In fact, in an odd way, because of science we know "less" than any earlier time in human history when the answers (for everything) came from religion.   The attempt to insert ID into the elevated discourse of naturalism is meant to cloak it with the appearance of being an equal partner with science in explaining the world.  It isn't, and the Smithsonian's implied endorsement will only  suggest that the science world acquiesces to such an illusion of equality.   The Creation Institute  knows this, and their PR people are no doubt having orgasms over it.

Stephen Nowlin
Director, Williamson Gallery
Art Center College of Design
http://www.xrl.us/stephennowlin

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