Reply #5: The headline is total bullshit [View All]

[Warren Stupidity]

The Boston Globe carried this story and it looks like AP is just re-sourcing it. Read the article. Other than these two paragraphs:

Evolution is a fundamental scientific theory that species evolved over millions of years. It has been standard in most public school science texts for decades but recently re-emerged in the spotlight as communities and some states debated whether school children should also be taught about creationism or intelligent design.

The theory of intelligent design says life on earth is too complex to have developed through evolution, implying that a higher power must have had a hand in creation.

there is nothing about Inferior Design or a 'debate' between ID and evolutionary theory. The author appears to have made this part up, it would appear to be editorial rather than reportorial.

Now onto the direct bullshit: "intelligent design says life on earth is too complex to have developed through evolution". Well no, ID claims that some bits and pieces of creatures are 'irreducibly complex' and therefore cannot have evolved but instead must have been designed. The Harvard study is looking at how life originated, not at how flagellum or eyeballs or whatever are too complex for your local pastor to believe that they could have evolved.