re: #252 Barflytom

Do you know the answer to the ultimate question of life the universe and everything ?

42 ?

I can see the point about “intelligent design” being a trojan horse for creationism, but isn’t that missing the wider point ?

Substitute “agnosticism” for “ID” and what MP and others are saying is that there are no absolute certainties, which I agree with. I don’t doubt the facts of evolution, but beyond that you’re into the question of “is there a God ?”, to which the only honest answer I can think of is “how the #@%! should I know ?”

Umm…isn’t the statement that there are no absolute certainties itself an absolute statement? Kinda self-contradictory, ain’t it?

But the question being addressed is not the existence or nonexistence of a deity, but the nonexistent veracity of ID. No purported ‘wider point’ is being addressed. And ID is indeed merely a new coat of PR propaganda lipstick slapped on the snout of an ancient creationist pig; of that there can be no empirical, historical, reasonable, or rational doubt.