A simple and accurate overview of Intelligent Design

Many critics of Intelligent Design (deliberately?) mischaracterize it no matter how many times they are corrected.  Here is a good presentation of it by Douglas Axe.

  • Living things contain within their genomes large amounts of functional information. 
  • The only cause known to be capable of generating large amounts of functional information is intelligence. 
  • It is therefore reasonable to infer that the functional information in living things must have an intelligent source

Here we have not a pronouncement but an argument based on evidence and logic.  It is perfectly fair to argue against it, of course, but it is hardly fair to dismiss it as dogma.

Anyone claiming that ID is illogical is completely wrong and untrustworthy.  It is theoretically possible that ID isn’t true, but under no circumstances can someone fairly say that it is unreasonable to infer an intelligent source for large amounts of functional information.

Hat tips: The Way the Ball Bounces and Wintery Knight.