Overview of the Nature of Intelligent Design as a Pseudoscience

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Dec 2006

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2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #174.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,

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There is a very strong anti-science movement in the U.S., which is the result of a number of factors, including poor science education resulting in inadequate public understanding of the process of science. It is therefore not surprising that large numbers of people accept various types of pseudoscience and reject other, very well-established, correct science.
One of the most frequently heard attacks on science deals with "alternatives to evolution" (intelligent design and various forms of creationism). While one might suppose this is a matter with which only biologists need to be concerned, some of the same arguments used against biological evolution are invoked to argue against our understanding of the age of the earth and the age of the universe. Attacks on evolution ripple through all the sciences and, in fact, the AAS passed a resolution on teaching evolution in schools. It is a unifying principle just like Big Bang cosmology, with overwhelming supporting evidence. Since many of the most recent attacks against science involved the promotion of Intelligent Design, it is appropriate to provide some background on Intelligent Design, why it is not science, and why astronomers should be concerned about it.

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