Intelligent Design

Intelligent Design as a theory has been attacked, attacked, for being a stalking horse for certain fundamentalist strains of Christianity since it was published.

I'd like to set the record straight here. In reality, ID doesn't posit who the Designer was and so the linking of that theory with Christianity is misplaced. There are many adherents to Intelligent Design that range across the political and religious spectrum.

To give you an idea of the 'big tent' nature of ID, I offer the following list of groups whose theories are fully compatible with Intelligent Design:

1. The Raelians
2. The Aetherius Society
3. Scientology
4. Aum Shinrikyo
5. The guy on the corner who claims that the Federal Government stole his brain

And the list goes on! Now, as you can see, Intelligent Design embraces a wide diversity of religious truth. It doesn't matter whether the Designer is God, angels, the people of ancient Atlantis or just plain old aliens like Mork from Ork (nanu nanu Grand Master!), Intelligent Design can support them all.

So please, don't be a narrow-minded intolerant cretin. Even though some groups like the Catholic Church and the National Academy of Science have come out against ID, you can choose to be more open-minded.