And what makes intelligent design unscientific isn't so much that it's obviously wrong, but that it amounts to throwing up our hands and saying, "nope, we can't understand it, shouldn't even try." That's the very opposite of science. Science is the process of examining things that seem mysterious and finding explanations for them. You can't just give up and say God did it. If a scientist honestly thinks God did something, her next move should be to figure out *how.*
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Date: 2005-08-11 01:48 am (UTC)And what makes intelligent design unscientific isn't so much that it's obviously wrong, but that it amounts to throwing up our hands and saying, "nope, we can't understand it, shouldn't even try." That's the very opposite of science. Science is the process of examining things that seem mysterious and finding explanations for them. You can't just give up and say God did it. If a scientist honestly thinks God did something, her next move should be to figure out *how.*