As a scientifc theory, Intelligent Design is useless. A scientific theory must at the very least ATTEMPT to explain something. Intelligent Design is an intellectual surrender..."it's too complicated for us to understand, so we'll say that somebody really really clever simply made it this way and give up".

Even as a surrender, it gets us nowhere. Put another way: let's say that life on earth is simply too complex and organized to have happend out of nothing. Okay. Now, something so complex and organized must have been designed...and the designer must have been comlex and highly organized...and therefore cannot just have appeared out of nothing...so must have had a designer...who must have been...................

Like I said, scientifically worthless.

Oh, and I am a geologist. Anybody want me to fix their teeth?









Good-humoured jab at the dentist brother above. No offense meant - really.