The whole design debate could not be simpler, and neither side’s viewpoint really requires much scientific expertise to understand: On the one hand, most scientists say, nothing can possibly be beyond the reach of our science, so if we can’t explain where the designer came from, there CAN’T be any design in Nature. (See last segment of video below) On the other hand, even if there “can’t be” any design in Nature, it is absurdly, spectacularly, ridiculously, blindingly obvious that there is.

There is a famous passage in Molière’s play The Imaginary Invalid in which he satirizes the tactic of tautology given as explanation.  A group of medieval doctors are giving an oral exam to a doctoral candidate, and they ask him why opium causes people to get sleepy.  The candidate responds: Mihi à docto DoctoreDomandatur causam & rationem, quareOpium facit dormire ?A quoy respondeo,Quia est in eoVirtus dormitiua,Cuius est naturaSensus assoupire. Which is translated: I am asked by the learned doctor the cause and reason why opium causes sleep.  To which I reply, because it has a dormitive property, whose nature is to lull the senses to sleep. Of course, “dormitive” is derived from the Latin “dormire,” which means to sleep.  Thus, Read More ›