Interesting article about ID vs. evolution

[Phobos]

From the NCSE Oct 15 e-newsletter.

A provocative essay on "intelligent design" by John Wilson -- editor of
Books & Culture and a Christianity Today editor at large...

...the essay argues...that "It's time to cool the rhetoric in the Intelligent Design dispute." While praising the "intelligent design" movement for what he takes to be its successes in identifying philosophical presuppositions of evolutionary theory and in compelling theistic evolutionists to improve the ways in which their views are formulated, Wilson identifies three ways in which "intelligent design" needs to clean up its act, arguing that "it is time for the ID crowd to stop suggesting that their 'accommodationist' rivals are largely driven by fear and careerism and other craven motives rather than by intellectual conviction," that "another unsatisfactory aspect of the current debate is the strategic refusal of the ID movement to engage in constructive
criticism of the Young Earth view," and that "If ID is going to foster
the pursuit of first-rate scientific work 'on a philosophically liberated
basis,' it would be more becoming to do some of the work first and
boast later."

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/009/24.62.html

I'm not trying to promote ID here, but it sure is refreshing to hear a voice from that arena finally say "hey, shouldn't we be using science to prove our case?"

 

[aychamo]

lol. No joke :)