(March 25, 2017 at 12:22 am)Jesster Wrote:(March 25, 2017 at 12:17 am)TheAtheologian Wrote: People have attacked and criticized the ID movement as creationism masquerading as less religious.
That's because that's exactly what ID is. When creationism was struck down by US courts to keep religion out of public school education, creationists just reworded creationism to disguise it as something less religious so they could try again. They called this "Intelligent Design". The restructuring didn't fool the courts, so it's not going to fool me.
Exactly this.
There are even some publications that, after the reworking, accidently contained traces of the word " creationism" or "creationist" near or around the words "intelligent design" or "design proponent". They literally took what they already had and altered a few words. Somehow, they even failed to do that very well.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Pandas_and_People
"The term "creationists" was changed to "design proponents", but in one case the beginning and end of the original word "creationists" were accidentally retained, so that "creationists" became "cdesign proponentsists"
ID is absolutely creationism repackaged. And barely repackaged at that.
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