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Thus, In Its Relation To Christianity, Intelligent Design Should Be Viewed As A Ground-clearing Operation That Gets Rid Of The Intellectual Rubbish That For Generations Has Kept Christianity From Receiving Serious Consideration.

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.

Intelligent Design, Unlike Creationism, Is A Science In Its Own Right And Can Stand On Its Own Feet.

In God Becoming Human In Jesus Christ, God Has Established Solidarity With The Human Condition.

Scientists Rightly Resist Invoking The Supernatural In Scientific Explanations For Fear Of Committing A God-of-the-gaps Fallacy (the Fallacy Of Using God As A Stop-gap For Ignorance). Yet Without Some Restriction On The Use Of Chance, Scientists Are In Danger Of Committing A Logically Equivalent Fallacy-one We May Call The “chance-of-the-gaps Fallacy.” Chance, Like God, Can Become A Stop-gap For Ignorance.