And if you're going to scold people publicly, do so honestly. Only some portion of the ID movement is necessarily driven from its assumed teleology. It may interest you to know that not all, or even most IDers are of the Rev. Billybob Swampwater variety. There are rather erudite and thoughtful critiques within ID about the philosophy of science and the (philosophical) limits of sense-reason and materialism. There are also some interesting scientific (as currently constituted) work being done among IDers. Their greatest sin is that they do not distinguish well between their philosophy of- and their practice of- science, which makes them kind of opaque to read and hard to follow.
Aristotle's problems never got fully resolved - Not by him, not by the Scholastics, not by the Moors, not by the Enlightenment, not by Rand - That's why these questions about the relationship between epistemology and metaphysics keep showing up. The fact that modern materialists have deluded themselves into believing that sense-reason answers all interesting questions doesn't change the fact that humans have a whole set of really interesting questions on which sense-reason must necessarily be silent. Pity its high priests aren't intellectually honest enough to be similarly still when they're out of their element.
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