ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by observing that, epistemologically speaking, Intelligent design (ID) possesses a reflexive understanding of the science-religion relationship. Intelligent design theory, the latest version of scientific creationism to challenge the Darwinian orthodoxy in biology, is in the unenviable position of being damned as both bad science and bad theology. ID's doubly heretical character can be traced to its assuming that science and religion should shape each other, such that science pursued properly enables us to understand what is distinctive about us that renders the world so intelligible. The more intelligently designed the site of knowing, the more intelligently designed the objects of knowledge appear. This is the trajectory that resulted in molecular biology becoming the fundamental science of life, a lab-based, physics-minded discipline completely alien to Darwin's own natural-historical way of thinking. Finally, it concludes by presenting the Creationist Left as a set of positive theses and a course of study.
