| | * intelligent design does not address metaphysical and religious questions such as the nature or identity of the designer.<ref>[http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2735 The Truth About Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture]</ref> | | * intelligent design does not address metaphysical and religious questions such as the nature or identity of the designer.<ref>[http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2735 The Truth About Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture]</ref> |
| − | Opponents of intelligent design are very persistent, like a bulldog<ref>Huxley remarked to student Henry Fairfield Osborn, twentieth-century American paleontologist and director of the American Museum of Natural History, back in the mid-seventies:about Charles Darwin, "You know I have to take care of him–in fact, I have always been Darwin's bull dog." [http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/guide4.html The Huxley File]</ref> or rottweiler, insisting that there is not and cannot be any distinction between intelligent design theories and the theological ideas of [[Creationism]]. For evolutionists, there are are only two possible and mutually exclusive positions: | + | Opponents of intelligent design are very persistent, like a bulldog<ref>Huxley remarked to student Henry Fairfield Osborn, twentieth-century American paleontologist and director of the American Museum of Natural History, back in the mid-seventies:about Charles Darwin, "You know I have to take care of him–in fact, I have always been Darwin's bull dog." [http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/guide4.html The Huxley File]</ref> or rottweiler, insisting that there is not and cannot be any distinction between intelligent design theories and the theological ideas of [[Creationism]]. For evolutionists, there are only two possible and mutually exclusive positions: |