THE cat-and-mouse contest between science and creationism took a new turn this week with the unveiling of a 鈥淕od lab鈥� ostensibly set up to search for scientific evidence for intelligent design. The move follows a 2005 US federal court ruling that ID is a religious idea not a scientific one.
鈥淭he move follows a US court ruling that ID is a religious idea not a scientific one鈥�
The Biologic Institute in Redmond, Washington, has been shrouded in secrecy since it was established more than a year ago by the Discovery Institute, an organisation which claims ID is a scientific theory (麻豆传媒, 16 December 2006, p 8). Its existence was finally made public on 10 May, when details of the project were published online at .
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Most scientists remain unimpressed. 鈥淎 cursory inspection of its staff roster reveals the same ID creationists whose work has already been critiqued and discredited, with a couple of new faces added for novelty,鈥� says Barbara Forrest, a philosopher who studies the creationist movement at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond.
