Actually, that would be better stated as "some" IDists accept common descent. Behe, Gene and others are in the minority but they do exist. Dembski, Cordova, myself and others take an opposing view. There are several camps developing in ID just as there are your closed universalists verses your flat universalists, relativity gravitists verses graviton gravitists in physics, etc.
Wait a second. In the whole "teach the controversy" argument of ID proponents, they point to various scientists having differences regarding specifics of the evo model, and call that evidence for why it is a faulty and failing model.
Doesn't that mean what you just said about ID, is an indication that ID is faulty and failing?
But let me move beyond that to another question... what criteria allows you, Dembski, and others to oppose the position taken by Behe on common descent? And I don't mean lack of info, I mean what positive info do you have for a model with no descent and only multiple creation events?
As far as I understand it Dembski does not deal with any physical evidence at all, and is only part of constructing the mathematical and philosophical tools necessary to detect design. I am unsure how one who does not work with the fossil evidence can possibly claim to have evidence for multiple creation events, rather than a single initial creation, with descent unpacking from preprogrammed data?
Why could this intelligence not have come from another universe? We don't have to get into metaphysics if one ponders how this could occur through a singularity in a black hole. It may not be so painfully obvious if you discard norms of mundane thinking and go a bit deeper.
What other universe? Now you have another universe and an ability to move from one to another? Wouldn't Occam's Razor come in to play somewhere about now?
Evolution does not require extra universes.
By the way, since you guys appeal to design and function, what is the point of moving through a hole to another universe billions of different times to leave behind different biological entities, instantly disappearing and covering any trace that they had been there? This is to ask, what is the function of the entities to the designer and what were they designed for?
All of our probes and even our Voyager craft had obvious function outside of their own existence, for our utility.
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