It's not science unless they explain how it works.
I sort of see what you mean, and 'Intelligent Design' does fail at this hugely, but I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that. Darwin himself did some moderately well regarded science without explaining how most of it worked; that understanding came bit-by-bit over the next century. It didn't stop his systematic compiling of observations, and hypotheses about their interpretations, from being science in the truest and best sense.
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Date: 2009-02-12 03:29 pm (UTC)I sort of see what you mean, and 'Intelligent Design' does fail at this hugely, but I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that. Darwin himself did some moderately well regarded science without explaining how most of it worked; that understanding came bit-by-bit over the next century. It didn't stop his systematic compiling of observations, and hypotheses about their interpretations, from being science in the truest and best sense.