I’ve got a new word I’d like to see circulated into general usage: Deisign.
Two syllables – Dei (pronounced ‘day’) and sign (pronounced ’sign’). Dei-sign. Deisign.
It’s a bit awkward at first, but you get used to it.
The idea is that there’s much ado about how the Intelligent Design camp really-truly-honestly claim that Intelligent Design is a valid scientific theory when we all know that it’s really just a re-branding of creationism.
So to keep that idea in mind, instead of calling it Design, we can instead give it the name of Deisign. For those of you who are unaware, Dei is the Latin word for God. So the idea behind the word Deisign is that it means ’sign of God’ – which is what the Intelligent Design proponents really mean when they use the term ‘irreducible complexity’. They think it’s a a sign of an Intelligent Designer, which is a transparent intellectual abstraction that tries to remove the religious trappings from the concept of God.
So let’s all step in with a bit of intellectual honesty and name the movement in a way that is true to its intentions – Intelligent Deisign.
I should hope that this particular oxymoron is obvious as such to everyone.
