PZ Myers’ Pharyngula links to a news story out of Madison, SD announcing the formation of an intelligent design (ID) club in the city. The reporting itself seems to be mere repetition of the information provided by the founder of the club, Madison resident Don Parker. For example, the reporter writes
While the concept sounds like an argument for creation, Parker says it’s more than that. Creation has a religious theme that says everything was created by God. The theory of intelligent design says a higher intelligence had to be responsible for certain things, but it doesn’t define what that higher intelligence is.
without referencing the fact that a nonscientist, Judge John E. Jones III of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, recently reviewed the arguments for and against ID in the case of Tammy Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover Area School District, and ruled, in part, that intelligent design was in fact a form of creationism. Corey Heidelberger at the Madville Times blogs has a more extensive deconstruction of the news story.
Parker is showing two movies which supposedly contain evidence showing something–either that evolutionary theory is wrong or that creationism is right–I’m not clear which. If you’ve been to the presentation, please post your thoughts in the comments section.
