Why Intelligent Design Fails as a Science: Part 1

In this video I will attempt to give a description of one reason that ID fails in its attempt to be considered scientific. The explanation I give is based on the fact that, while all supported scientific theories are valid in explaining a part of the natural world in the current state of being, no truly scientific theory would or could ever be able to explain every potential state of being as well. Intelligent Design is advanced as an alternative to evolution, and claims to be a scientific theory capable of explaining life as it is today. Even if we grant them that for the sake of argument, it directly follows that any designer capable of creating the universe as we see it would likely be capable of creating the universe in any way they wanted. Any other creation could be completed different than what we see. Because the simple explanation that "the designer designed it that way" can be advanced no matter what the current state of being is assumed to be, and is equally explanatory no matter what the current state of being is, ID cannot be considered a scientific theory because it is not tied to any reality whatsoever. No scientifically acceptable theory can simultaneously explain to mutually incompatible states of being. For example, ID works as an explanation whether life shares genetic similarities or not. ID works whether there is gravity in the universe or not. ID works whether the universe came about through the big bang or through special creation. Since it can be applied to everything, it can in reality be applied to nothing, as it actually answers no questions, makes no predictions about the natural state of being, and is therefore not useful as a science.

If you feel I have overgeneralized ID in this video (God did it), I would merely disagree by stating that ID begins with the assumption that a designer created everything. While many ID advocates will proclaim that they make no claim as to who the designer is, it is safe to say that the majority of them believe it to be a god of one form or another. I would then point out, since at the heart of ID lies an assumption about a creator, that the ultimate explanation for anything, no matter how scientific they attempt to make it sound (using bogus terms like "irreducible complexity" and such), the statement that "the designer designed it that way" is all they are attempting to demonstrate. While stating that "God did it" may caricature ID slightly, I believe it is still an accurate version of their claim - merely change "god" to "designer" to see what I mean.

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[dlcoherence]

I don't see too many private sector pharmaceutical drug companies basing their research on evolutionary biology....only government funded labs do so. Follow the money!

[AstronomyGuru84]

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" Douglas Adams - One of my favorite quotes.

[Greyclouds40]

@elfy99803 That is not correct. If the environment that an organism lives in selects for traits that it already has, it is not predicted to gain new traits. This is called "stabilizing selection."

Consider too that there ARE diverse variants of Coelacanths in the fossil record!

Evolution has not been disproven by the existence of living Coelacanths. Now, if you found out that the Coelacanth has only accumulated detrimental traits over time within its environment, THEN evolution is in trouble!

[elfy99803]

2:48 That's a lie, look at the "million year old" fish that was "extict" the coalacanth. They are alive and apperantly they went extinct millions of years ago. They have not evolved since fossils were found, was the theory discarted? no. Disproves evolution? Yes.

[biggingeryeti]

Respond to this video... you can indeed call it a tiger. The majority of the pieces show it to be a tiger and the box shows it as a tiger, the logical conclusion is that it's a tiger. What intelligent design does is then go, well you didn't see how it was made and can't prove it is definitely a tiger, the pieces go together because god designed it to look that way, so that must mean that it could be a picture of god. Get it?

[biggingeryeti]

@Olasqy Let me put it this way, if you had a jigsaw and had 90% of the pieces in place and it looked like a tiger. A bit of the face and tail are missing but it looks like a tiger. You then look at the box and the box shows that it is a tiger. So you have constructed a general picture that looks like a tiger and have observed that it is a tiger as shown on the box. Now let's say you can't find the final pieces of the jigsaw. Can you still say that the jigsaw is a tiger? Science says that yes

[Olasqy]

This feels more like an attack than an informative video. The pictures are offensive. When one side attacks another it makes itself look bad. This applies for evolutionist and creationist. These videos merely slander evolution.

[Olasqy]

So neither side can truely be proven? Someone help me out here

[PureSniperWolf]

So basically if people don't believe what you believe then you'll put Evolutionist-Approved earplugs in and close your eyes and refuse to hear what anyone else says? Interesting. Religion is more about the "why" of it all than the "how". Science is supposed to answer "how", not "why". Why does it actually matter if someone thinks things were created by an intelligent power however long ago (no one's alive to tell us how long that was) or if random things happened and here we are on the web?

[thestapler3]

Love all your videos and would love to see more. I see everything exactly the same!