NASA Should Allow for Intelligent Design

[Redleg]

Red, I think Mr. Deutsch's overall leanings are clear enough. While it is conceivable he might not have the "religous hardcase" part of the package too, it somehow seems rather... unlikely.
Certainly not something I'd bet my money on, anyway.

Initially I could not find any supporting material that supports the first quote, since the linked article did not contain it. However I have since found several articles that lean toward the brush stroke of Lemur's and have edited my post.

[Watchman]

I can agree with the point that scientific theories should be referred to as such, and not as given truths. That sort of stuff is the field of religions.

But then again, I've no doubt there's no shortage of pompous pricks in the scientific community who gleefully take a functionally religious approach to their theories and push them as "truths". The way theories that go against established orthodoxy tend to get treated alone suggests as much.

[BDC]

Heh ID. I've got no issues with Big Bang being wrong, just ID has as much scientific credibility as the universe being created by me earlier today.

It's not NASA's place to put non-scientific religious beliefs on its site to make fundalmentalists feel a bit better.

[Tachikaze]

Maybe NASA could make a huge list of all the world's creation stories so they can include them.

People who promote ID think or claim it is not religiously exclusive, forgetting that many religions, like Buddhism, don't have an intelligent creator. It is not universal.

I would call the "Big Bang" a theory and ID Christianity.

[Watchman]

Out of curiosity, are Jews and Muslims also trying to further the ID concept ? 'Cause I only ever hear of various strains of Christian mucking around with it...

[ajaxfetish]

I can agree with the point that scientific theories should be referred to as such, and not as given truths. That sort of stuff is the field of religions.

I agree. I think that the very word 'theory' gets a stigma these days it doesn't deserve. Theory and opinion are very different things and most theories are inherently impossible to prove. Their strength comes from successfully passing attempts at falsification. Theories like ID, on the other hand, have no conceivable means of falsification, so they cannot even be tested, only taken on faith . . . or not. Such theories have no chance of ever displacing legitimate scientific theories because they lack the potential to be proven wrong.

Ajax

[Zalmoxis]

This is... way too bizarre.