It is important to understand that the debate about
Intelligent Design is not about science, reality or truth. Don’t misunderstand—Intelligent
Design is all about science, reality and truth, but the debate itself is about one
side (Intelligent Design) simply being ruled out of bounds by those in power. Law
professor, Stanley Fish who is presumably no friend Intelligent Design
explains:
“…it is easy to see why creation science or intelligent
design doesn’t have a chance. Any attempt to present it in a state-funded
classroom as a legitimate alternative to evolution will be blocked by the state’s
unwillingness (given the establishment clause) to give its stamp of approval to
a religious position. Any attempt to remove the label ‘religious’ and replace it with ‘scientific’ will be resisted
by the arbiters of what science is, who have already made up their collective
mind in advance. And any attempt to establish the truth of intelligent design
by the usual academic routes of argument and experiment will not get off the
ground because the academy, like the liberal state of which it is a mirror and
an extension, defines itself by it difference from religion” (Stanley Fish, Winning
Arguments. New York : Harper, 2016, 185).
In other words, Intelligent Design doesn’t fail for lack of
better scientific arguments. It fails simply because the secular elites in
science, education, law and politics simply refuse to give an honest hearing to anything that
challenges their secular assumptions and presuppositions.
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