Barbara Forest: Is ID Science or Not?

Me neither but I’d love to be wrong. Many years ago (circa 2008) there was at least one interesting design thinker who was independent of the DI. He wrote a decent book called The Design Matrix under the name “Mike Gene.” I had some very good discussions with him.

My friend and former colleague Del Ratzsch did some fantastic scholarship on design. I mention him and his excellent work here occasionally.

I don’t think Simon Conway Morris ever self-identified as someone who backs ID, but his ideas overlap considerably with ID and he cited Michael Denton approvingly in his 2003 book Life’s Solution.

Here in 2021, there’s not much left of ID thought anywhere, since design is a minor subject in the DI’s landfill. But IMO there used to be some respectable discussion of design in biology.

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