The God Lab

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Proponents of so-called "Intelligent Design" continue their quest to produce evidence that would convince a judge and jury. Having been frustrated in the formal ways of doing so, they have resorted to scholarly-sounding innuendo and a 'major' motion picture that spends its time not trying to explain its position, but by trying to demolish the existing one.

Now, they have announced the next step:

Creationists unveil 'God Lab'

* 14 May 2008
* From New Scientist Print Edition.

THE cat-and-mouse contest between science and creationism took a new turn this week with the unveiling of a "God lab" 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.

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 (New Scientist, 16 December 2006, p 8). Its existence was finally made public on 10 May, when details of the project were published online at www.biologicinstitute.org.

Most scientists remain unimpressed. "A 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," says Barbara Forrest, a philosopher who studies the creationist movement at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond.

From issue 2656 of New Scientist magazine, 14 May 2008, page 7

I'd settle for a "(C) God" engraved at the foot of Mt. Everest, or on the Rock of Gibraltar. Better yet, some similar mark or pattern existing (in the DNA, perhaps?) in every single creature on this planet; living or extinct, from the micro to the macro. That certainly might demonstrate the existence of an extremely powerful being...but not necessarily the one believers say it is, nor necessarily a being that's worthy of worship.

Of course if they really wanted to find God, they need only go across town, since Redmond, WA is also the home of Microsoft.