Catholics and Intelligent Design, Part Four

This is the fourth in a series responding to certain Catholic critics of intelligent design. In the previous installment, we pondered whether ID ought to be considered "teleo-mechanistic" in its assumptions and implications. We also discussed the ways in which ID is really a tertium quid that should not be simply identified either with Aristotelianism or with teleo-mechanism.

In this installment, we consider two more complaints against ID. The first is a simple misunderstanding. Some critics ...