Is intelligent design science?
ID is not science. This was the finding of Judge Jones during the Kitzmiller hearing, and is a position supported by the overwhelming majority of the scientific community.[1] Intelligent design cannot be considered a scientific theory, because it is untestable even in principle, whilst all scientific theories are in principle dis-provable. A scientific theory predicts the outcome of experiments. If the predicted outcome is not observed, the theory is false. There is no experiment which can be constructed which can disprove intelligent design. Unlike a true scientific theory, it has absolutely no predictive capability. It doesn’t run the risk of being disproved by objective experiment. Further, ID represents a fundamental reversal of the scientific method, in that it begins with a conclusion ( there is a “designer”, responsible for complex living structures ), and seeks to find evidence that fits with that conclusion. Finally, by positing a supernatural explanation for features that can
