Is Intelligent Design pseudoscience?
No, Intelligent Design is not pseudoscience. As a theory it follows the time honored principles of the scientific method and relies solely on empirical evidence. It does not rely on extra philosophical presuppositions or religious authority. Similar to many other scientific endeavors, intelligent design offers concrete predictions and can be falsified. There is often a lack of clarity about how the nature of ID Theory and empirical scientific research relate to one another. Many claim that Intelligent Design is not science, or that ID is merely religion masquerading as science. Whether a study is pseudoscience or not has less to do with the ideas under study than the approach used to study or validate them. Testing Intelligent Design with proper scientific research is a current effort, already underway. ResearchID.org has been established to give greater accessibility to this research. As more intellectuals become aware of the rigorous scientific research, ID will be shown to be scient
