Behe - Intelligent Design equivalent to astrology
New Scientist is reporting the progress of the trial in the USA in which parents are taking legal action to stop their school board adding Intelligent Design to the science curriculum. Their grounds are that ID is essentially a religious position and not science at all; the ID crowd usually maintain that it is a genuine scientific theory, despite the total lack of any published science to support it (even from themselves). Michael Behe, one of the main proponents of ID, has been giving evidence in the trial and has admitted that, according to the usual definitions, ID is not a scientific theory. He said that he had his own definition, under which ID was a real scientific theory. However, when questioned, he admitted that his definition would also include astrology as “valid” science.
Oops.
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Tony B ()
3:50pm on 26 January 2006