'Intelligent design': What do scientists fear?

because it is trying to be pushed as science when it is really religion
the question of the designer comes down to being god in the end, we can not test god or find evidence of his workings, we can not use ID to predict anything
it does not provide us with answers that the ToE doesn't, nor is it a real theory with working definitions, no one seems to be able to define complexity but its used in arguments agenst the ToEit is a wedge to get religion in science where it doesn't need to be

No, it is the religious right who started this. claiming that stem cell research is murdering of children, when its not, there is no life to begin with. the right, rather than researching and funding research took to the goverment and demanded that research that could save lives be stopped. Not over something they have evidence of but thier beliefs.its just like abortion and euthanasia, neather is about verifible things but based on personal beliefs and enforcement of them the only junk science is the science produced by the groups that want to stop progress and enforce thier beliefs

sounds to me from an earlier post that you are saying it is, why say if we are pursuing adult stem cell research instead of embryonic, we arn't killing another life, sounds like a round about way of saying embryonic stem cell research is killing of children i never once said this nonsense, of course its alive being alive doesn't make it a person though, we eat beef, and pork but we feel no remorse because it was alive that seems to me to have some sort of defintion, part of a definition would be the characteristics of life i'm not sure what you are talking about? i don't think i ever said the embryos aren't alive. euthanaisa has to do with this? but most if not all the problems are based on religious reasons, not commonsense ones or science reasonsa person in pvs brought on by a damaging blow to the head is not going to come out of it, commonsense would tell you that the person would not like to live hooked up to mechines for their lifetime or burden thier families, stresswise and moneywise - science would explain that a person would never come out of it so there is no point in keeping them alive, since its fruitless
guess what? people do not use common sense to justify keeping the pvs person alive, its belief or religion that says you can't kill the person, even though they are just basically a breathing hunk of meat wasting your money
they justify the belief, because they see the person twitch or open thier eyes and "look" around, its only a case of lights on but no one is home