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1. That irreducible complexity in biological systems exists, and its origins are, as yet, unclear, unhypothesised and untestable: TRUE.
2. That the unknown mechanisms refererred thereto resemble some technologies designed by humans:
TRUE.
To fill the gap between these 2 statements by saying that the incompletely understood articles in I are, by the truth of 2, designed:
UTTERLY FALSE, ILLOGICAL, and UNSCIENTIFIC.The theory is untestable, and therefore unscientific. It falls outside the realm of what science IS. It makes a proposition ABOUT a subject to which we can apply the scientific method, but is not itself a scientific theory..
In the same way that saying some metals are hard, and can be fashioned in gears and levers is not mechanics..
ID tells us nothing about evolution, origins, biochemistry or theology. It merely states that some aspects of science are complex and as yet unknown, and proposes that they will forever remain unknowable, something which by definition, is unprovable.
It is the philosophical equivalent of infinity plus one.
Utterly valueless, it merely relabels the boundaries of knowledge - it is a word-game, a shadow-puppet show, a thin crutch for people whose own misunderstanding of their own misunderstanding of physics and biology leaves them in an ontological vacuum, and need the solice of an inferred deity/creator/designer onto which to project the shadow of their own incomplete self-image.
Again - it is a word-game, 'design' reveals the proponents' need for a purpose behind their own existence, purpose being a recent human concept, without which the universe existed very nicely thank-you for 13billion years (google red-shift, big-bang, etc). Purpose is a concept that arises from symbolic thought, to extrapolate this symbolic thought to darwinian principals of mutation and selection is false - it is these prinicpals that lead to the development of symbolic thought.
At the base of all IDists fears is the cold, mechanistic universe, in which their existence is both meaningless and accidental. Their fervency to disprove this only reveals the degree to which they actually believe it to be true..
Unaware of their own true identity, unverified by anything truly approaching spritual/cosmic experience, lost in a symbolic maze of mirrors, concepts and ego, without ever truly experiencing the one-ness, the atman, the oceanic unity that has guided and informed acid-heads, mystics, poets and freaks since the year dot, they invoke and project their highest ideals onto that part of the universe that exists outside the scope of ego-awareness and subjectivity, and define this idea as the 'cause' of the universe, the creator, the god - it is the process that is behind their very creation of which they are, at every second, the most recent event, yet they insist that it is outside of them, designing from a distance, and reveals more about the fractured, child-like state of their own individual, incomplete conciousness than any scientific ideas with which it attempts to deal.
ID IS deistic religion, period, and should be laughed at in the street.