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Based completely on physical data plus ordinary logic.

Intelligent design is science because it is based completely on physical data — the molecular machinery of cells — plus ordinary logic.

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Why is intelligent design science? Isn’t it just giving up on finding a scientific explanation for something that we don’t yet fully understand?

Intelligent design is science because it is based completely on physical data — the molecular machinery of cells — plus ordinary logic. Whenever we see systems in our everyday world of a certain degree and kind of complexity (like clocks), we always have found them to be designed. Now, much to our surprise, science has discovered similar systems in the cell. I see no reason to withhold the conclusion of design for cellular components. So the design of cellular machinery is an inductive argument based on physical evidence — a scientific conclusion.
When the motions of the galaxies away from the earth was first observed in the 1930s, that led to the Big Bang hypothesis. Many scientists of that time hated the idea of a beginning to nature, because it seemed to have theistic overtones. What if they had said that the Big Bang hypothesis was simply giving up on finding a scientific explanation for something that we don’t fully understand yet? If they had, physics would have missed out on a lot of progress. Science has to follow the evidence wherever it leads, or it ceases to be science. Right now the biological evidence is leading to the conclusion of design.
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Intelligent Design
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Is Intelligent Design science?
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Based completely on physical data plus ordinary logic.
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Satisfies all the conditions usually required for scientific inquiry
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21st-century biology makes sense in the light of Intelligent Design.
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Intelligent Design is falsifiable.
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Pleads to a well-known force operating within nature: Intelligence.
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