Predictions by Intelligent Design about the Dover Ruling

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As discussed previously, Intelligent Design is a movement that is decidedly not biblical creation science. Evolutionists (especially atheists) on social(ist) media do not seem to have received the memo, thus telling the opposite of the truth. They also spread myths about the Dover ruling.

One tinhorn left a comment on a post that the ruling devastated ID both legally and scientifically, but he clearly did not know what he was talking about. Study on it a spell: How can science be settled by a judge — and a biased one at that?

Flagellum base diagram, Wikimedia Commons / LadyofHats (public domain)
Dr. Michael Behe's presentation of irreducible complexity (where all of the parts need to be in place and functioning from the get-go) was ridiculed, but the bacterial flagellum is irreducibly complex nonetheless. Since 2005, that fact has only been reinforced. Although Dr. Behe came up with the term, biblical creationists have been using irreducible complexity arguments for quite some time, such as in the bombardier beetle.

There are some predictions of sorts regarding Intelligent Design and the Dover fiasco's fallout. Interesting that they also may apply to creation science.
Michael Behe’s prescient recognition of irreducible complexity in the bacterial flagellum, mocked at the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover trial, has been further supported just in time for the trial verdict’s 20th anniversary [December 20, 2025] by research published this month in PNAS. Three Harvard physicists report: “Torque-generating units of the bacterial flagellar motor are rotary motors.” That is, bacterial flagellar motors are not vaguely like rotary motors. They ARE rotary motors, just like Dr. Behe said.

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As Dr. Luskin says, the incompetent Dover decision was only a “speed-bump” for ID. But it remains true that scientists, post-Dover, are not anywhere near being fully at liberty to test the design hypothesis, free of intimidation. We constantly have to warn young scientists to be very careful about with whom they discuss their ID interests. An issue like that came up for me just yesterday. Our prediction, unfortunately, was on target.

To read the entire article or listen by clicking the speaker icon, head on over to "Vindicated: Three Dover-Related Predictions of Intelligent Design."