Intelligent Design Downunder

I spend a fair bit of time keeping an eye on ID movements in the US and the UK, and I thought I should check out what a search for "intelligent design" at Google's Australian website would yield.

This was one of the results.

Complete with banners straight out of the 1960's, this website could best be desrcibed as Uncommon Descent on acid. It tells us:

You don't have to believe in god to support scientific design

In its pure scientific form, Intelligent Design is NOT a religious explanation of how we came into existence BUT a new and recognised scientific theory with an explanation that even atheist scientists can accept, a leading consultant medical specialist and research scientist.

Intelligent Design IS a religious explanation of how we came into existence. ID asserts that natural processes (in the form of evolution) cannot account for humans as they are today. When leading ID advocates are pressed to reveal their thoughts on who the intelligent designer is, the answer is fairly unanimous - the Christian God. ID is creation science which replaces "creation" with "design" and "God/The Creator" with "intelligent designer". The underlying (and flawed) logiv behind it is the same.

Furthermore, it is most certainly NOT a "recognised scientific theory". The overwhelming response to ID from the scientific community (especially biologists) has been a resounding What the F....?!

So, I suppose we should ask, if we're not a result of evolution, and we're not a result of a supernatural God, where did we come from? IntelligentDesign.org.au asks its readers the very same question. Your choices are...

A. Darwinian Evolution
B. Advanced ET Scientists
C. Intrinsic Cosmic Intelligence
D. A Supernatural God

IntelligentDesign.org.au tells us it can't be A and they assure us they don't think it's B. That leaves us with Advanced Extra-Terrestrial Scientists and Intrinsic Cosmic Intelligence. But what do these ET Scientists look like? And what's cosmic intelligence? Luckily, IntelligentDesign.org.au offers us some ideas...

"Options 2 or 3 are compatible with Scientific Design"

Um...Ok...

Further down the page you can find a series of pesentations. In The Intelligent Design of Crop Circles we can learn that...

Crop circles...(are) a language without words...A unique learning tool...To change our view...To change our life.

"Mankind desperately needs a miracle but could we recognise one if it stared us in the face?"

A message of FEELING & CARING

Well I've certainly seen the light...have YOU?!

When I've got some more time I might offer some reviews of the other presentations, just for a laugh. Looks like I'll be needing to add an "I Hope They're Joking" section to my sidebar.