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James McGrath's blog

It has been far too long since I've posted on the subject of intelligent design, but I was inspired by Eric Reitan's recent post to comment on the arena into which ID seems to be turning its attention, namely the soul and mind-body dualism.

The whole method of intelligent design seems to be reducible to a simple two-step procedure:

1) Find something science allegedly cannot explain in principle;

2) Appeal to 'intelligent design' as the one size fits all 'explanation' for the phenomenon in step 1.

When it comes to consciousness, cdesign proponentsists might seem to be on safer terrain than the bacterial flagellum or the immune system, since consciousness represents the 'hard problem' and it is likely to remain a mystery for many years to come.

But in actual fact, intelligent design's approach to this subject rests on a category mistake..... READ MORE.