An emotionally powerful argument against recognizing intelligent design in nature is that it seems to place you in the position of standing athwart history yelling Stop! ID begins by acknowledging that in probing the origins of life and of the cosmos, material explanations are not always, automatically the best ones.

Materialists, on other hand, deny that any causal chain can be traced back in the end to purpose, wisdom, intelligence. In this denial, aren’t they on the side of history? Brute natural forces explain everything in the final analysis — the progress of science shows this. Or does it? That’s the subject of a fine two-part essay by our friend Jonathan Witt over at The Stream.

Read the article “Does Intelligent Design Stand Athwart the History of Science, Yelling ‘Stop?’” on evolutionnews.org.