I read and hear many people criticizing ID, what are the facts?
Intelligent Design Theory is not based on a false understanding of science. ID is testing the hypothesis that intelligent agents leave distinct marks or signs that can be detected empirically. This is not a false premise. In fact, it is the fundamental premise of forensic science, archeology, and other current scientific disciplines. It is a direct correlate to the most foundational concept in science; cause and effect. Empirical knowledge is an incramental process that involves using accumulated knowledge of effects in order to better understand the cause. ID is accumulating knowledge about the effects of intelligent activity in order to better understand the cause of natural phenomena. It is claimed that ID is circumventing conventional means of gaining scientific acceptance. ID is not creationism. ID is not supernaturalism. ID is not a religious argument, it is a scientific inference. ID is not a hypothesis based on faith. ID does not claim that evolution is false on every point. ID
