Does intelligent design theory make the “Unexplained” = “Unexplainable” fallacy?
The Short Answer: Intelligent design does not merely claim that the origin of complex (i.e. irreducibly complex) biological structures are unexplained, but rather that they are in principle unexplainable. They are not unexplainable because they are unexplained, but rather the converse is true, for they are unexplained because it is in principle impossible for Darwinian evolution to explain the origin of irreducibly complex biological structures. Thus, this is not an argument from ignorance or “god-of-the-gaps” type reasoning, for irreducible complexity is a theoretical falsifier of Darwinian evolution.
