The common rant:
“ID, which is just Creationism in a cheap lab coat, is contrary to the core purpose of Science. Could you imagine if everytime a technical or scientific problem arose and these so called Scientitst threw up their hands and said “It’s too complicated, there has to be some sort of ID(good old God) involved, Better not try to examine it further or we might upset some religious crank.”
Use ad hominem attacks when engaging ID proponents, it will lead to a killing of the debate on merits (which is the primary goal) so label ID as creationism, and voila, no more need for debate — they’re all just silly creationists, don’t listen to them.
Demonization need be the only defense against a idea that you cannot respond to. After all, science’s “core purpose” is to cling to a theory that has not logically fit the evidence.
Lets us see, how does such logic sound?
I like wording of such intellectual proofs:
“The existence of highly complex, organized, and orchestrated nano-technological machines (sometimes made of dozens of complex proteins and RNA subunits) at the very core of all biological functions is undeniable evidence of random mutation followed by natural selection, and completely discredits any proposition of design”.
“The fact that encoded information in DNA is proofread when exchanged from DNA to DNA, when exchanged from DNA to RNA, and when exchanged from RNA to proteins with a reliability of 1 error to 10,000,000 nucleotides provides strong evidence of random mutation followed by natural selection”
“The fact that scientific expressions used to describe inner cell biological processes is virtually identical to the expressions used in engineering and information technologies (while being virtually opposite of expressions in material and geosciences) is commanding evidence of random mutation followed by natural selection, and provides further doubt to the possibility of any design.
“The existence of a code that ‘unlike the periodic table which is determined by the necessities of atomic structure, the genetic code is completely *conventional*. There is no necessary connection between the proteins manufactured by the cell and their equivalents in the DNA code’ provides further evidence of random mutation followed by natural selection, and is a great impediment to any suggestion of design.”
“Time, space, matter, and energy came into being from a materialistically unknowable single source at the beginning of the Universe; this therefore provides conclusive evidence that materialism will forever explain the Universe and all things in it.”
“I see that random mutations can, and in fact do, occasionally create local benefits to organisms (such as immunity to some toxins), therefore we can ignore the fossil record and explain the great variety of all species throughout time.”
“Larger, more complex, organisms cannot adapt to changing conditions through random mutations as easily and efficiently as smaller, less complex, organisms, so we therefore conclude that massively increased complexity is a benefit to the survival of organisms”
“Science cannot find any combination of explanatory pathways for abiogenesis though material means and then test those means in the laboratory, we shall therefore infer that only material explanations are capable of abiogenesis, and demand that any other inferences be tested in the laboratory prior to consideration”
“Any inference of Intelligent causes can not be taken seriously in a scientific sense unless accompanied by a complete description of the intelligent source, as well as a description of whom or what created the intelligent source, unless, of course, the intelligent source provided by SETI.”
“Human consciousness, like non-materialistic causes, cannot generate evidence in the laboratory, therefore it does not exist”
“Of the untold billions of complex life forms that might have ever existed since the beginning of time, we only have evidence for one organism reaching conscious self-awareness on one finely-tuned planet (among billions), in one finely-tuned galaxy (among billions), in one finely-tuned universe; therefore we shall not explore any concepts of Design”.
“Darwin believed that (at the basic level) life would be simple protoplasmic material, modified by natural selection through time, with an “inconceivably great” number of intermediate life forms recorded in the fossil record. What we have found is molecular machines of incredible number and organization, a coded hereditary system of layered complexity, an explosion of life forms in (and around) the Cambrian era, the stasis of body plans over millions of years, and a virtual vacuum of intermediate fossils. This provides strong evidence that evolution by random mutation and natural selection is the only explanatory force behind life on Earth.”
“Darwin’s Theory of Evolution by gradual change through the mechanism of chance mutation and natural selection does not provide a thesis for the actual creation of life on Earth, and does not concur with the fossil record in several important aspects; therefore any competing inferences from the evidence will heretofore be referred to as “poofing” into existence”.
“Both the religion and science have been repeatedly proven through time to have committed gross errors of judgment, biased shading of facts, as well as outright fraud; therefore any thesis that contains any possible religious meaning must be disallowed from scientific discussion without further consideration.”
