Recently, I encountered two stunning cell animations which serve to highlight the sheer beauty, magnificence and power of intelligent design.
Those among us who have been in ID circles for some time will undoubtedly recognise much of the first. It is a compilation of clips which have been used in ID multimedia, put together in stunningly elegant fashion with an inspirational new background soundtrack.
A number of months ago, Pigliucci and Boundry expressed their strong dislike of machine metaphors in science (see also Paul Nelson’s remarks on this statement here). If you recall, Pigliucci and Boundry said that,
…if we want to keep Intelligent Design out of the classroom, not only do we have to exclude the ‘theory’ from the biology curriculum, but we also have to be weary [sic] of using scientific metaphors that bolster design-like misconceptions about living systems. We argue that the machine-information metaphor in biology not only misleads students and the public at large, but cannot but direct even the thinking of the scientists involved, and therefore the sort of questions they decide to pursue and how they approach them.
One can only imagine what their reaction might be to this animation. I dread to think. I’ll let you see for yourself.