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"Intelligent design" is way out there though, I don't see this appealing to hardly anyone.

It's got pretty broad appeal because for once, science is dealing with reality instead of stating things about "it takes millions of years" when they have lost all hope of proving something happened. ID notes that information doesn't arise out of nothing by random chance. It looks at the complex information system of the book that is DNA. And DNA is not merely a single book, every person has their own version of the book with specific information for how that person was and is constructed. If that weren't enough, the reproductive system and the body's internal systems both use the DNA information and act on it intelligently. It's awkward enough to note that DNA holds information - worse yet, another system of the body actually understands it and has information of it's own on how to process the DNA information. And if that weren't bad enough for the evos, the human cell is a miniature factory floor that carries out complex operations on the DNA to produce things required by the body and detailed within the DNA. What's more, the entire engaged process involved is irreducibly complex. Just as with the little 40 part engine that is the tail/motor of a type of bacteria and which will not function without all it's 40 parts... irreducibly complex. Remove one part and none of it works and none of the parts individually provides any advantage to the system.

ID pulls the wool off of people's eyes re natural selection - which ID embraces. Selection works within the range allowed by the DNA and the systems of the body that iterpret the DNA. It's like quality control on the floor of the GM/Delphi plant my mother used to work at. No amount of quality control applied in selecting radios from the plant to fit into GM cars would ever turn those radios into microwave ovens. Selection works to gaurd against error so that what is produced works within it's defines. Selection is intended to ensure quality of the radio. It doesn't turn the radio into a microwave and never will. The ID crowd understands such matters of obviety and common sense. They also understand that, with some, common sense and matters that are obvious to the regular joe aren't so obvious to people with really high IQ's who think they're smarter than everyone else and more wise than us all. We are all, afterall, foolish to them for imagining that quality control should actually be - er, quality control. Or as one famous debator these guys hate would say, All common dogs have a distant common ancestor - it was a dog. Uncommon common sense is moronic to evos.

So why is ID dumb? Simple, Evos work from the same playbook that the liberals have long played from. Nobody is buying it anymore. And the advent of work from the ID front which has now been used to explain the fossilized forests of yellowstone (if memory serves) based on studies of the aftermath of St. Helens, etc.. has given ID more and more credibility. ID has something on it's side that Evolution has been lacking - results. And that is more dangerous to the Evos than anything else.