BYU Newsnet on Sen. Buttars

BYU Newsnet has an article about Sen. Buttars’ attempts to inject Intelligent Design into Utah schools. There’s nothing really new in the article, so I’m not adding it to my collection on the sidebar.

The article contains a couple of quotes from faculty, including Duane Jeffery.

“Intelligent design claims to be an alternate theory to evolution,” Jeffery said. “It cannot qualify as a theory.”

A scientific theory, Jeffery said, is a broad summation that pulls together massive amounts of data and gives direction for future testing. The problem with intelligent design is it cannot be tested for validation, he said.

“You can’t test anything with intelligent design,” he said. “There’s no way you can do science with it. Nobody has been able to.”