One last gasp on Intelligent Design.
I spent two rather lengthy posts attacking the Popper definition of science, as it applied to the intelligent design theory.
On my way to work this evening, I realized that Intelligent Design is falsifiable, and due to the construction of the theory, it would be relatively easy to do so.
The theory boils down to this: there are biochemical systems in the body which are irreducibly complex, that is to say that the removal of any one piece renders the entire system inoperable. These systems cannot have evolved through neo-Darwinian natural selection, since any small change would result in a non-functioning system. Therefore, the systems must have been designed.
First, as I stated before, that conclusion is flawed, since it presupposes that no other explanation exists to explain irreducible complexity. Ironically, this weakness in the theory is what renders it falsifiable, making it, according to Popper anyway, scientific.
In order to falsify intelligent design, one of two things needs to be done.