intelligent design
today i heard about yet another bill in yet another state to inject intelligent design into yet another school system's science curriculum. now, i totally approve of the belief that some intelligent designer out there is deciding which atoms radioactively decay when and decides which chromosomes little johnny gets from mom and which from the postman. and i don't care if that intelligent designer is the christian god, space aliens, or a giant pink foo-foo bird. intelligent design isn't science. here's why. scientific theories by definition, make predictions that can be tested. none of us can predict what the intelligent designer is going to do next because we're just the lab rats and not the guy in the pretty white coat. without predictions we can't put the theory to the test. ergo it's not science. keep it out of the science curriculum. thank you.