When A Leaf Turns

I think I’ve actually witnessed a clear, well thought out, instructive statement made by an IDist. Responding to a post by guest creationist Cornelius Hunter over at UD, a commenter named Daisy posted the following (after a paragraph of standard “Darwinists are morons” quips that are requisite for any devout IDist).

As I’ve said before…the most critical thing for the ID movement to be doing right now is developing its own intricacies and methodologies, designing and supporting a much more intense program for conducting new empirical research — funding this through our own donations and volunteers if necessary.

Ten years from now, if we’re still talking about whether or not evolutionism is true, the movement will have been an utter failure. Instead, the topic by then needs to be why scientists working under the paradigm of Intelligent Design theory are producing new and valuable discoveries, while scientists working under the paradigm of Evolution theory are stagnating under the weight of their own assumptions.

This is absolutely brilliant, and I think that if this were to happen it would be a wonderful thing. It would be one of the greatest paradigm shifts since Einsteins Theory of Relativity, and I couldn’t imagine not wanting to be a part of it in some way.

Having said that, I (and many others I’m sure) believe that such a thing will never come to pass. From what I know of the theory there doesn’t seem to be any way to turn it into anything that’s actually useful in the way described above. The ultimate conclusion of the theory seems to be that Some Guy Did It. By what means? Don’t know, can’t know. For what purpose? Don’t know, can’t know. What does it tell us about what we’re likely to see in biology as a result? Only that we’re likely to see whatever that guy happened to have done. So what exactly has he done? We’ll have to determine that by seeing whatever we happen to see.

I truly and honestly hope that I’m wrong, because I want to be one of the people that was alive and participating when the scientific revolution came. I just don’t hold out much hope that it will actually come to pass.