The Indy Star has an editorial entitled Intelligent design fails readiness test. The problem with Intelligent Design isn’t readiness. The problem is that it’s not science. As Ed Brayton puts it, “ID is little more than a vague form of creationism – creationism with all of the specific testable statements taken out.” If it’s not testable, it’s not a scientific theory. And the Indy Star misses that very important point when it says:
ID, as a scientific theory, simply isn’t ready for primetime presentation to high school or middle school students.
To be “ready for primetime,” Intelligent Design would have to put forth testable hypotheses which is to say, it would have to become something it is not: namely, science. The Indy Star correctly concludes that Intelligent Design shouldn’t be on lawmakers’ agenda this year, but for the wrong reasons.
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