Why don't scientists take on Intelligent Design?

" … that’s all we needed." That’s behind us now, its more like we’re heading for the hospice at this point. :expressionless:

 

Back to this thread and Intelligent Design.

The point I was trying to get across,

First acknowledging the little chattering voices in our heads who are constantly talking at us about our surroundings and what to think about it.

{That place that’s home to religion and emotions and our flights of fancy.}

Then, pointing out that when really getting into the details of biology and evolution, it really gets mind-boggling and it’s real easy for the unschooled person to see a designer or some sort of intelligence behind it all.

{guess that further I’m saying that’s not the worst thing so long as we appreciate it’s a myth, an element to help us accept what we can’t understand, appreciating that it doesn’t represent actual physical reality. It’s about perceptions, abilities, level of understanding.}

 

I build on that to point out that within sober science, we do have mathematics, and that what randomness there is, is constrained. Meaning nothing is pure change, the way that Creationists keep misrepresenting the science as saying. Why not draw a storyteller’s connection between that unknowable Intelligent Design and mathematics and natural laws and the constraints they place on all we know.

 

My conclusion is that this failure of vision is yet another gross public communication error - that is not directly addressing this aura that Intelligent Design exudes.

 

One final point that must be kept clear when discussing Intelligent Design — we are discussing psychology and philosophy -

That clarification provides a perfect introduction for explaining how evidence-based science works within a global community of informed, competitive, skeptical individuals.

and so on …