Unintelligent advocates - Dangerous delusions

Truth in Science is a Christian organisation who believe in Intelligent design. It is their firm and unshakeable belief that there is a intelligent design and he/she/it the Christian God.... or as they phrase it .."The theory of intelligent design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection."

Professor Andy MacIntosh BSc, PhD, DSc, FIMA, CMath, FInstE, CEng, FInstP, MIGEM ,Professor of Thermodynamics and Combustion Theory, at Leeds University has signed a letter accompanying a pack of 2 DVD and other materials that seeks to refute Darwinism and the Theories of Natural Selection which has been sent to every science department in every school in the UK.

With all the personality of a ,"I speak your weight machine" Professor Tosh tells us on Newsnight (BBC 2 tonight) he is a thermodynamicist and justifies this attempt to subvert the standard curriculum . Their curious website quotes one of the great philosphers of the 20th century in support.

" Science, claimed Karl Popper (1902-94), proceeds by guesses that are continually tested, i.e. by conjectures and refutations. That is the real essence of science, not that its conclusions may be verified, but that they can be refuted. "

Regrettably these Neanderthal academics cannot understand that their "philosophy" can be refuted instantly by demanding proof of the existence of their Grand designer - God. An examination of dawkins latest opus, "The God Delusion" would help them enormously.

In the absence of proof and faced with the massive evidence of the processes of speciation , development and evolution of living plants and animals it is impossible to see why a child should spend any time examining this nonsense. Nor should any school with the pressures on teaching children about oral sex and citizenship be deflected from their efforts.

Examining their website is interesting - especially their confused (and confusing) defence of criticism of their activities and publications from Ekklesia, The British Humanists and the interest of the DfES which refutes their belief in the porcesses so lucidly explained by Karl Popper.

Meanwhile Lord Patel is preparing a dossier for circulation to schools from the "Flat Earth Society" and a course of public lectures, the first of which will be, "Why Aeroplanes cannot fly - Heavier than air machines - the cruel delusion".