At UD there has been much discussion about Thomism, final causes, and the like. This stuff has been around for centuries, but we have never seen books from people like Barbara Forrest with titles like, “Thomists and Final-Cause Advocates Want to Impose a Theocracy and Destroy Science!” But we have seen such outrage and irrational screaming about ID theory. Why is this?
The answer is simple and obvious. ID theory is rigorous. It’s based on the hard sciences of information theory, computation, probabilistic mathematics, and the limits of chemical reactions, stochastic processes, and the Darwinian mechanism to produce what we see in nature — in particular, information-rich systems with the requisite hardware and software.
Let’s face it, the reason ID has created such an uproar is that it has attacked materialistic philosophy on its own grounds, and has demonstrated in rigorous terms why its propositions are simply not credible.