Expelled: No IntelligenceS allowed?

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The tagline for Ben Stein's pro-ID movie is "Big science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom."

This is rather ironic, because the thinkers behind Intelligent Design themselves have been accused of expelling smart ideas from the Intelligent Design theory themselves.

Multiple Designers Theory is a theory that is part of Intelligent Design.

According to its originator: "as its name implies, the central tenet of Multiple Designers Theory is that if intelligent design is implicated in the properties and structure of life of on earth, then multiple designers are implicated, not merely a single designer." In his introduction of the concept in 2002, Hoppe denies that it is a parody of intelligent design: "I am known to be an ID critic, and readers may therefore believe that this description of Multiple Designers Theory is presented as a parody of ID. It is not. It is a logical extension of a dominant stream of thought in current ID."

Since investigations into multiple designers might actually fail to make any such discrimination, MDT does not exclude the single-designer possibility. However, while the ideas offer fruitful ground for research, Hoppe has failed to inspire anyone within the ID community to follow up on his approach, and remains the sole investigator.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noisy/MDT

A person wrote this as a comment on the Panda's Thumb blog:

Expelled by ID

Due to the stranglehold that the “single designer” hypothesis has on ID theory, multiple designer ID is rejected outright and its proponents subjected to ridicule.

I have been repeatedly and continually ostracized from ID communities for daring to suggest that the evidence supports the idea that life-forms existing today are the result of multiple designers. The notion is dismissed without even cursory consideration of the evidence provided, and the unlucky supporter (me) receives ridicule and derision due to the stranglehold the (poorly supported) “single designer” hypothesis has on ID theory.

http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2007/10/you-too-could-b.html

Why is Big Intelligent Design ignoring Multiple Designers Theory?