Stephen Meyer

[Mudhammam]

I don't equate ID scientists with creationist shitheads, necessarily, though I think their argument is just as philosophically empty-minded. On the one hand, however, there does seem to be a legitimate objection to be made that Darwinism is a theory formed during the Victorian age when natural selection was believed to construct complex organisms from relatively simple forms, and molecular biology seems to contest that anything able to eat, shit, and reproduce is a far cry from simple, not to mention involves processes that make it difficult to conceive how natural selection could act. I respect such thinkers for the objections they raise because Darwinism is not fully understood as a process on the molecular level (where it is understood complex mechanisms are already in place), but regarding the answers such critics provide, well yes, it stinks of creatardism.