Does intelligent design theory lack evidence or testability?
The S & C booklet claims that “molecular evolutionary data counter a recent proposition called ‘intelligent design theory” (S & C, Pg. 21). There are at least three components of biology for which intelligent design theory disputes a purely natural origin and could use theories about intelligent design to contribute to explanation: (1) The nature of the information contained within the genetic code, (2) the origin of the first cell and replicating DNA system, and (3) irreducibly complex structures as a counterexample of Darwinian evolution. 1. The NAS booklet does not mention information theory and in no way attempts to mechanistically account for the existence of information as discrete entities within the cell. This existence of information within the cell is testable, and many scientific theories of information already exist. The ability of natural law to cause the existence of complex and specified information is in no way discussed, even though William Dembski had already formulat
