Idiotic design
• Miseducation
Scientists respond to the folks who are pushing ID in Kansas:
In 1999, their target was more modest -- the removal of just one topic, evolution, from the state science curriculum. This time, the scope of their intentions is much broader. It is an outright attack upon all of science, and every discipline, from physics to astronomy to geology, is at risk.
The revisers make much of the idea of methodological naturalism. They do not mention metaphysical naturalism. In fact, they confuse the two. They are quite correct when they assert that hypotheses about the natural processes of evolution are formulated under the general approach of methodological materialism. They are quite wrong when they claim that this leads to anything scientifically or constitutionally problematic.
In fact, everyone who problem-solves uses methodological naturalism. When we are faced with a puzzle or wish to accomplish some task, we switch to the mode of methodological naturalism and seek natural explanations or solutions. Scientists do this. Bankers do this. Farmers do this. In fact, just about everyone does this. Imagine if I went to my auto mechanic and he said: "Well, it might be the brakes or it might be an evil spirit."