The IDers know that, so they carefully crafted the term intelligent design to mislead. It is a clever propaganda idiom intended to give the impression that the creator that knew enough to meticulously make the universe and all living things has to be profoundly smart and savvy. But the word intelligence has multiple meanings. An ant is more intelligent than a rock, but neither are particularly smart much less moral entities. Stalin was an intelligent bloke, but he was also incredibly stupid to the point of being an evil mass murderer. Ford was brilliant at mass producing automobiles, but he was a stupidly virulent anti-Semite who made the fraudulent and obscure Protocols of the Elders of Zion popular (Ford would later accept a swastika adorned award from Hitler's Reich). Being really, truly intelligent means not only being bright enough to craft sophisticated habitats and biology, but being truly brilliant enough to set up the systems so that they maximize the benefits to the sentient inhabitants, including preserving their lives and comfort while maximizing their freedom of choice. If there is a deliberate designer of the universe and life, then its intelligence is so scandalously marginal that it produced a maximally defective habitat that goes as far as it can to deny humans their comfort, safety and mature free will. Because such a being is inept, sloppy, evil and correspondingly stupid, ID should be accurately relabeled what it truly is, FD (Foolish Design). And the intelligent designer should be known as the foolish designer.
Most proponents of FD theory hope that its scientific verification of the existence of a creator will revive popular belief in the savior Jesus Christ. But that depends upon perpetually compartmentalizing the issues. As it becomes known that FD requires that the Christian God has gone to lengths to cleverly devise diseases, they will undermine the premise of divine benevolence that the popularity of the faith rests upon.
It is just too good to be true.
Behe as well as Dembski have claimed that theologians have already dealt with the problem of prematurely deceased humans. Not even close. As I document in the P&T study, theodists have bent over backwards to consistently avoid dealing the issue -- and have continued to do so since the paper was published. That's to be expected if not condoned. What is odd is how even the proevolution community has failed to take full advantage of the dark side of the "intelligent" designer that was so foolish that it went to the effort to fashion the astonishingly defective human reproductive tract, the deficient juvenile immune defenses, and murderous microbes behind malaria, smallpox, typhus, cholera, dysentery, plague, measles, influenza, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, rabies, encephalitis, yellow fever, scarlet fever, syphilis, HIV, meningitis, whooping cough, pneumonia".
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