The foolishness of Intelligent Design

Intelligent Design was doomed to be a failure from the very start. Now, the verdict is out that it is what it is: another name for creationsim. Judge Jones in a scathing pronouncement said that the theory was unconstitutional and it was at best a religious view. Meanwhile advocates of ID vow to continue the fight in higher courts, with a detremination that is akin to 'missionary zeal'. ID Design is dead, long live ID Design ? You can read the verdict of the judge Jones here.

Here I am reproducing my conversation with Michael Behe, the propounder of the bogus theory, to give you a hint of the depth (or lack of it) of his fictional theory:

If God designed the universe, who designed the
Designer?

By ID's own arguments, a designer capable of creating irreducible complexity must also be irreducibly complex. Unlike with religious creationism, where the question "what created God?" can be answered with theological arguments, this creates a logical paradox, as the chain of designers can be followed back indefinitely, leaving the question of the creation of the first designer dangling. The sort of logic required in sustaining such reasoning is known as circular reasoning; a form of logical fallacy.

Michael J Behe responds: “It's a theological question and I'm a scientist. What's more, we don't have to address that question. To illustrate, let me ask two questions: 1) Who designed the first airplane? 2) Who designed the person who designed the first airplane? To answer the first question, we don't have to have an answer to the second question. The second question is separate. We can recognize that the airplane had a designer without getting into the question of who designed the designer of the airplane.”