ID vs Evolution

Over the course of the last year I've read many different viewpoints on Intelligent Design versus Evolution. Now, I am a technical person with a background in science, but hardly a micro or evolutionary biologist. However, the discussions being represented on both sides really lean more towards what should be taught versus a knowledge of the cutting edge of discovery.

The problem I see is evolution is both fact and a great mystery. It encapsulates many, many different things and this is a problem. Animal physiology changing slightly is indeed fact. It is seen, can easily be verified, and is proven. Likewise, species slightly altering and forming newer ones is also in my mind verifiable. Common descent and the origins of life are not proveable, not factual, and not verifiable. Equating these as fact and putting them under the large umbrella of evolution is utter rubbish, but happens with more commonality. These are still a mystery and unfortunately many in the science community wish to present ideas as facts, when this is not at all what science should be about.

Intelligent Design is an interesting idea and it's supporters have some excellent points. However, the one single damning part of ID that seems to be ignored is it does not use materialistic naturalism in how it is setup. Saying we do not understand how something occured, and thus it is irreducibly complex is not a scientific answer, nor a good basis for an argument for anything. While this may indeed be true it misses the simple guiding point of science in a faux Occlams Razor argument.

So, where does this lead us? Well, there are certainly vast deceits being pushed by both sides here. Evolution tries to call it's many facets factual which is a great misleading of science. ID tries to hoist non scientific methodologies without a good reason.

I wish there was a way to wipe the slate clean, bring in fresh ideas, remove the pre concieved notions, and work towards progress which neither evolution or ID seems to be doing well. One is faux science, the other is science of faux principles. Galileo and Newton must be rolling over in their graves.