Intelligent design is mainstream
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Claim
Intelligent design has been accepted as a mainstream scientific theory. It is argued before school boards; top scientists have published articles about it; its promotional videos have even been shown on public television.
Source
- Winn, Pete, 2003 (Aug. 15). A New Day, Some New Science. Citizen Link [1]
Responses
- Intelligent design certainly has not been accepted by the mainstream scientific community. There are no ID papers published in any credible scientific journals. The one recent exception was cited as an oversight by the publisher (reference to be provided). School board debates and public television programs carry no weight in the scientific arena.
- Top scientists who publish articles about it are generally doing so in order to indicate that Intelligent Design is not scientific or that its "theories" are logically flawed. If top scientists are writing to point out that it isn't scientific, the fact that they are discussing it cannot be used as a basis for claiming that it is part of the scientific mainstream.
- Giving the appearance of science does not transmute a belief into science. Nor is widespread acceptance a criterion for scientific validity. This is tantamount to believing in magic spells, and that science is valid because of the way it is talked about.
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Fallacies contained in this claim
- Appeal to Popularity ("mainstream" beliefs must be true)
- Relativism (two things which are both "mainstream" are equally valid)
- Vague Similarities (if something can resemble science it must be science)
- Honor by Association (anything that approximately resembles science must be approximately "as good as" science)
- Conspiracy Theory (science is only valid because people have been conditioned to accept things that resemble science)
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Related claims
- Intelligent design theory is scientific
- Intelligent design theory is not religious
- Intelligent design is not creationism
