Intelligent Design Is A Modest Position Theologically

The Very Comprehensibility Of The World Points To An Intelligence Behind The World. Indeed, Science Would Be Impossible If Our Intelligence Were Not Adapted To The Intelligibility Of The World. The Match Between Our Intelligence And The Intelligibility Of The World Is No Accident. Nor Can It Properly Be Attributed To Natural Selection, Which Places A Premium On Survival And Reproduction And Has No Stake In Truth Or Conscious Thought. Indeed, Meat-puppet Robots Are Just Fine As The Output Of A Darwinian Evolutionary Process.

Constrained Optimization Is The Art Of Compromise Between Conflicting Objectives. This Is What Design Is All About. To Find Fault With Biological Design - As Stephen Jay Gould Regularly Does - Because It Misses Some Idealized Optimum Is Therefore Gratuitous. Not Knowing The Objectives Of The Designer, Gould Is In No Position To Say Whether The Designer Has Proposed A Faulty Compromise Among Those Objectives.

Intelligent Design Opens The Whole Possibility Of Us Being Created In The Image Of A Benevolent God.

Intelligent Design Is Just The Logos Theology Of John's Gospel Restated In The Idiom Of Information Theory.

Without A Unified Political Climate Of Opinion, There Is Little Or No Political Profit In Doing The Right Thing.