Talking with Todd Butterfield on ID the Future, Evolution News contributor Steve Laufmann discusses the multiple issues around the perennial question, “Is intelligent design science?” Laufmann is not only a splendid, lucid writer but an equally compelling talker.

He reflects on the demarcation question — What are the limits of science? — and on the defining qualities of historical science. He explains that ID’s offense is not against science but against the demands of a materialist worldview. It’s for that reason that with ID’s critics, this is such a personal issue. For them, ID can’t be merely mistaken, it has to be reprehensible, an unclean, impure lie perpetrated by the bogeymen, “creationists.”

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Also excellent reflections on how in the long run, the evidence of science is on ID’s side. Every new revelation of exquisite, functional complexity in biology — and no week goes by without one — weighs the scale further in favor of design. The trend is always against Darwinian explanation.

A great discussion with Butterfield and Laufmann. Listen now.

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