As you might know, proponents of so-called “Intelligent Design” are pushing — in the US and a handful of theocratic states, in Europe we are luckily spared this nonsense — for the introduction of the teaching of a purported controversy between the Theory of Evolution through natural selection and their own re-branded version of creationism.
They want us to believe that the scientific world is split between those who believe in Darwin’s theory and those who oppose it and invoke the intervention of an intelligent “designer”, which they studiously avoid naming by the name of “God” lest they be accused of pushing a religious agenda.
If that was the case, one would expect that if we asked a group of scientists which are the most puzzling questions that science faces today, one of them would be “Did life evolve or was it designed?”
Instead, this all-important question seems to have been omitted by those “evilutionists” that run Science Magazine when they published their list of the 125 hardest questions for science.
The only question that comes near is “How and Where Did Life on Earth Arise?”, but it regards abiogenesis rather than evolution and there’s no mention of the possibility of a “designer” in there.
So much for the idea of a controversy.
