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Dark Matter vs. Intelligent Design

Clearly demonstrating that dark matter, rather than grey matter, is between the ears of those looking to "intelligent design" for answers.


From Discover magazine's, February 2006, Letters: "Making Sense Of Space":

In December's "Field Guide to the Entire Universe", Corey S Powell says that we have no idea how to make sense 70 sextillion stars, not to mention dark matter and dark energy. Science wants everything verified visually or mathematically. We now use fudge factors called dark energy and dark matter; amounting to 96 percent of the universe, to make our formulas work. It's time we put our calculation of the universe, along with intelligen design, into the hunamities rather than science. I'll bet the answers to both will be at a dead heat when they eventually enter the science curriculum.

          -Duane LaMoreaux, Commerce, Michigan, USA.


Dark Matter may be an enigma, but it has earned its place in the science classroom. The existence of dark matter is inferred from several independent empirical observations, including the rotations of galaxies, the distribution of hot gas in galaxy clusters, the gravitational lensing of light in galaxy clusters, and the distribution of the cosmic microwave background. Intelligent design, in contrast, is based on a lack of evidence (anything we don't understand just gets attributed to an unknown designer). Also, several teams of physicists are hard at work searching for direct evidence of dark-matter particles; those experiments could confirm the existence of dark matter. The the best of my knowledge, nobody is engaged in scientific experiments to isolate the intelligent designer and thereby prove or disprove his (its?) existence.

          -Corey S. Powell

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