Proponents of intelligent design deny that random variation combined with natural and sexual selection suffices to originate the present diversity of life forms. It seems to them that any adequate explanation must include an intelligent designer. But they differ among themselves about what that intelligent designer must be like and what it has done. Did it engineer the present life forms pretty much as they are now? Creationists will say yes, but not all IDers are creationists. Did it just engineer the first cell and let the rest unfold? Sometimes ID proponents seem to suggest this (e.g., Michael Behe). Must that engineer have been God? Most will deny that the scientific method could demonstrate that God is the cause of a natural phenomenon; others, however, will insist that ID shows that the world was made by no less than God. Opponents of ID seem to have only the latter crowd in mind. They respond that it is all really religion belief in the disguise of science. Obviously I...
Commentary and discussion regarding science, faith and culture by Leo White