Would You Like Science With That?

We’re launching headfast and headfirst out of the gate this morning with a Big Intellectual Question That’s Occurred To Us But Is Far Better Articulated Here. Tom Vanderbilt gets into–via the iPod–a discussion of capital-I capital-D Intelligent Design, the ontology that always seems to keep on kicking no matter how hard the seculars try and keep it down. Vanderbilt, writing at Design Observer, takes it back old-school.

In 1802, the English philosopher William Paley, in a kind of predecessor to ID, famously used the case of coming across a rock and a watch in a field.

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