“My position is that ID is a tautology unless accompanied by a theory of design, one that says something substantial and predictive about the process of design, the motives and methods of the designer, the processes that implement the design.”
Ironically, the same can be said about about the Darwinian theroy of evolution. Evolution occurs due to “survival of the fittest,” and how is “fittest” defined? Those who survive, of course. Now *that’s* a tautology.
Also, the Darwinian Theory of evolution has made very few if any actual “predictions” that were actually corroborated. What happens over and over is that empirical findings are explained in terms of the theory *after* they are discovered — not before. In other words, the theory is very good at making “postdictions,” but not so good at predictions.
Nonsense.
Evolution occurs because errors in copying genomes occur which affect the probabilities of individuals surviving and reproducing. This is not a tautology; it is an observable fact. It is a phenomenon that can be observed in natural populations, and it is a phenomenon that can be manipulated and studied in the laboratory.