PBS to show Intelligent Design Documentary

Kathryn wrote:

Again Kathryn writes out of context. Kathryn wrote the above immediately after quoting me in which I explained that I regretted my use of the word "amazing" and in which I endeavored to explain more clearly what I had meant to say. Kathryn's remark above is therefore at best nonresponsive.

What I said was that Intelligent Design Theory produces only a single result--that a designer exists. There is nothing about design process, constraints, etc. Nor could there be, since the ID movement includes young-earth creathionists as well as old earth creationists and even theistic evolutionists who acknowledge common descent of essentially all living things. Obviously such a group cannot possibly agree upon anything about the design except that there was a design, sothe alleged fact that there was a design is all that really gets discussed. It really doesn't matter whether the design is good or bad, just that it's there. Just like it doesn't matter that Dr. Johnson's horse doesn't count well, just that he counts at all.

Of course Johnson's horse might have a good day once in a while and count correctly. Anbd an occasional ID theorist might actually publish something beyond claiming to show that the designer exists. But none of that really matters to the ID movement. The movement's only point is to demonstrate the designer's existence, not to enquire into the nature of the design. It may not be every ID movement member who shows indifference to the nature of the design; but the raison d'etre for the movement as a whole is without doubt to show that the designer designed, and its one amazing discovery is that it claims to have demonstrated that the designer designed. It matters how well as much as it matters how well Dr. Johnson's horse counts.