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One approach to dealing with a problem is to adopt the ostrich approach, that is to stick one’s head in the ground and pretend there is no problem. A comment by a colleague of mine takes just this approach with the issue of Intelligent Design. He states that there is “no controversy in the scientific community”. He also suggests that “every shred of objective evidence” supports evolution. And that “not one shred of objective evidence refutes it”.

This sort of blind faith in Darwinism is exactly the problem. As he accurately notes, believing something to be true does not make it true. Over 400 respected scientists have signed a document stating, “We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life. Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged.” Believing there is no controversy doesn’t make it true. To accuse the ID community of lying to support their argument is to commit the ad hominem fallacy (instead of attacking an assertion, the argument attacks the person who made the assertion).

Many are still hoping that they might soon lift their heads from beneath the sand and their will be know talk of intelligent design. To state that there is no controversy, all evidence supports evolution, and none refutes it illustrates the blind adherence to scientific naturalism that is the problem. No evidence, no matter how powerful, would be enough to convince some to abandon Darwinism. That constitutes a blind adherence to a belief system, not science.

All would be better served by a critical evaluation of the evidence. The irreducible complexity and specified complexity found in living organisms which cannot be accounted for by Darwinism has led some to postulate that the best explanation for the evidence is intelligent design.