Creationism is categorical belief, based on the teachings of the various monotheistic religions. Within its bounds reside scriptures mentioned above, as well as dogmatic beliefs, rituals and ordained doctrine. Thus, while creationism as a concept could be mentioned, it would never be taught in secular institutions.

Intelligent design on the other hand, is a viable alternative hypothesis regarding a tentative means of producing novelty and complexity within biologic systems. While once tied to religion, the current prevailing synthesis is merely one of interventionary input to the embryogenetic process, and that it may act in concert with known and observable adaptive evolutionary processes.

Some will extrapolate ID to ‘goddidit’, while others will deny ID as God’s methodology. Still others will deny its viability, or term it as merely a guise to promote religion. But whatever one’s personal position, ID is not only a viable hypothesis, but a more likely one than random chance (even though selected upon) to produce all bioforms.

Evolutionary theory is its current synthesis is short sighted, based on the known complexity contained within the data. While the evidence of phylogenetic progressions and related lineages is ‘overwhelming’ (to use a favored evolution defending term), and natural selection is well established as an adaptive means of fixing beneficial traits within a population, the means of acheiving novelty (innovative and new body plans), and complexity (synergistic and irreducible systems) is not.

In my opinion, the worst case of handwaving I’ve ever seen is not ‘goddidit’, but ‘mutantdidit’, and to accept that fatuous premise without question is sophistry beyond belief. In sum, the evidence of intelligent input into the processes is stronger today than in the past, and to shuffle it under the rug of science by stating that it doesn’t qualify as science, is quite simply a dated sophomoric viewpoint that needs to be relegated to antiquity. Both ID and natural causation need be considered, carefully weighed and evaluated objectively, to facilitate the furtherance of ‘objective’ science.