Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.

The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.

As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood and its universality.

Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.

Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives.

Any view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient.