A recent rival of the antievolutionary "intelligent design" argument holds that biochemical pathways are too complex to have evolved, because all intermediate steps in a given pathway must be present to produce the final product. Critique this argument. How could you use the diversity of metabolic pathways that produce the same or similar products to support your case?

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anonymous · Answer

ID isn't even real science, and it's an insult to religion as well: their theories make God look stupid and constrain him to things that we don't yet understand. What ID proponents do is they find something that isn't yet understood (at one point, it was a bacterial flagellum) and basically wave their hands and say "God did it!", and then when that thing has been properly explained by actual scientists, they find something else that hasn't been explained yet and repeat the process.