If you assume that a creationist says, "wow, look at species diversity, it is more diverse even than can be imagined by computer scientists" therefore I am going to simply stick with own environment (let's say this was my Gradfather's farm in South Dak. on a farm of Seventh Day Adventists) then YES INDEED, yes, indeed and truth it would appear that you might think it appropriate to apply Maclean and have said that the claim is simply religious.
But wait, even granting that, the question would be, has the "environment" in its current more globalizations formations CROSSED all these developments in religion such that it matters NOT what I assert from a religious perspective as the secular control controls even the feedthrough as well as any feedback IN MY STATMENTS whether motiviated by religiousity or denominializtion. That is an issue for a legal theory to legally resolve. In any fact pattern it seems doubtful that this is going to end the LEGAL DIFFERENCE OF (opinions). As long as I think in this environment, I can always have an assbackward opinion etc and this has happened somewhat more recently in my environment than what I represented in the best or worst case, depending on which illegal side you come down on.
Now, you were not saying THIS. You were tyring to use something like the above to say why YOU DONT BELIEVE ID is SCIENCE.
I dont think the history of ID is out of order. ICR was touting a "two-model" APPROACH OUT of these environs BEFORE one even had much of a chance to "believe" in ID or not. In THOSE "models" (a model is not science - got it?- my models of dinosaurs were not reptiles and amphibians I had next to them in cages and the strange change machine that turned plastic squares into dinosaurs by plugging them into the wall that seperated me and my brother's room was not religious) DATA was directed, sent, or inputted INTO EITHER MODEL. ID blurrs this clear discrimination that was simply deployable by the difference in the placements of words (scientific creationism and creation science). There is no necessary conflict between the "science" outputted from either of these disciplinary labels , if I may say, and the claim that there is no legitamate controversy IN SCIENCE whether in the ONE Model or THE other stands no matter what the globalization did to the invelopment of the environs that even Finnegan's wake can not Shemicize. That may also be a legal "sorry I made a mistake" but it would need a good lawyer, perhaps Johnson to so bring it.
But look what had happened, and if the courts of appeal decide to use the history to decide a purely contingent reality then it seems scientific that it be recognized that these two clear models can not be differentiated in the designs of ID ON SCIENCE (and if phrased interms of physical teleology these CAN be sustatained in a "research program" just as evo bios have tried to maintain that Croizat represents a "research program" contra Neo-Darwinism (at least when this planet is the place the environment exists in)as it can be cognized that the seperation of the data from the model no longer exists in the events that make up what one might call "Intelligent Design".
This message has been edited by Brad McFall, 09-18-2005 07:38 AM