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On another level, perhaps more importantly, it's an argument about whether or not a devout religious person should be allowed to hold a position of scientific authority, regardless of his academic achievements or prior record.
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My first reaction to this was "Absolutely not." Not in the topic of a real science, to which the devout religious person might be biased towards because it defies their faith, not their scientific authority. Proponents of ID have very little scientific authority, if any at all. They're the ones keeping this debate from being closed, for no other reason than it defies their faith. I see no evidence for ID, nor do I believe there will ever be, and not because of my lack of religion, but because it's science, not faith. Mind you, I'm speaking strictly within the confines of evolutionary biology, and in no way am I implying that religious peoples aren't intelligent, but in this case, there's bias, a variable which shouldn't play into scientific realms.
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