Joel Keller recently posted [1] regarding the newly released movie “Who’s the Dodo? Intelligent Design Circus.”
I haven’t yet seen this movie (I plan to), but there is an obstacle to Intelligent Design so simple that even young children recognize it. I hope the movie addresses this question head on (Keller’s review doesn’t address this issue):
If everything that is complex had to be designed (this is ID’s highest principle), then the Designer must have been designed. It follows that that Designer must have been designed as well. In other words, Intelligent Design is based on an eternal regress. It only “works” if you throw out the most important rule after playing one round of the game.
“Who designed God?” is a question ID must answer with a straight face for ID to have any credibility. And the answer can’t be “no one” without destroying the entire foundation for Intelligent Design. If the answer is, nonetheless, that “no one” designed “the Designer,” how is that conclusion any less absurd than suggesting that natural selection (i.e., no sentient being) sculpted the multitude of critters we find on Earth.
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