This is more serious than the other threads so I'm not going to be sarcastic with you here...
I'm a 4.0 junior at my high school who is taking 4 AP exams this year, and I've also attended the 2004 Missouri Scholars Academy, which is offered each summer to the 330 most academically talented sophomores in the state. I have a capability to think for myself, so don't accuse me of being deceived by a propaganda machine.
Congratulations on your abilities. This does show some merit. However you need to keep in mind that brilliance does not make one less susceptible nor impervious to propaganda. Propaganda attacks emotions or other reactionary elements and allows us to skip by logic and evidence.
Brilliant people have been suckered right down through the ages, and I know three people personally who were brilliant and yet somehow got suckered by ID theory.
I am not saying that you were a sucker, or that anyone that believes in it must be a sucker. Personally I do believe that those who are not, have simply not fully explored ID, including its metaphysical expectations regarding how science needs to operate in the future.
There are possibilities for ID to have some utility, and I even opened a thread a long time ago to explore that issue. Guess what? No ID theorists showed up and instead a bunch of us evos batted around some ideas. This did not bode well for ID confidence in their own theory.
I also opened a thread (which CK pointed to) asking for ID theorists to present any new research developed by anyone within ID. It has also remained silent as a tomb.
I realize Ned and Jar have set up a new thread, but if you specifically have info on research (nothing pre 2000) which ID theorists have conducted, I hope you will show up in that thread.
I am open to the possibility that ID can do something, but I have yet to see anything actually done. I am also disturbed by some of its proponents who appear to be demanding modern science be revoked in order that ID's preliminary theories can be called scientific findings. That does tend to lend an impression that ID is not actually a science, or has not gotten anywhere scientifically.
However I am open to discussion and look forward to something interesting from an actual ID theorists (many so far have resorted to creationism).
holmes
"...what a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.."(D. Bros)