Intelligent Design
The moment ID (Intelligent Design) was born, ie. when Creationists were forced for tactical reasons to externally sever any invocation of a Biblical Christian God, ID became an exercise in circular logic and self-refutation for the following reasons:
a) Any invocation of a “conscious” designer brings you right back to invocation of a God, leaving out the serious problem of how one can define “conscious” within this framework.
b) Invocation of a “non-conscious” designer brings you right back to the evolutionary theory of life; indeed, the two are different only in nomenclature.
ID was specifically created as a way to conceal its founders’ sole purpose and motivation: to teach Biblical Creationism in the classroom and prevent anything that contradicts Biblical Creationism from being taught in the classroom. Without this specific motivation, ID would not have been invented in the first place.
