…for Intelligent Design, suggests the NY Times.

The main reason, so far as science is concerned, is that the I.D.

people don’t do any. Science, that is. Key quote from the Times

piece:

“The Templeton Foundation, a major supporter of projects seeking to

reconcile science and religion, says that after providing a few grants

for conferences and courses to debate intelligent design, they asked

proponents to submit proposals for actual research. ‘They never came

in,’ said Charles L. Harper Jr., senior vice president at the

Templeton Foundation, who said that while he was skeptical from the

beginning, other foundation officials were initially intrigued and

later grew disillusioned. ‘From the point of view of rigor and

intellectual seriousness, the intelligent design people don’t come out

very well in our world of scientific review,’ he said.”

Blogger John Farrell elaborates very well on this key point here.

The I.D. people are superb at P.R.–I’d grade them A-plus on that.

Their science grade, however, has to be an F. In fact, even that is

generous. You can’t really grade them on science at all, because

THEY. DON’T. DO. ANY. SCIENCE.