So you think that something like feline animalism is an assertion I don t think I m making myself clear at all then Your page says you have a BA in Philosophy are you familiar with much philosophy of language Perhaps you ll like seeing a more formal argument Assertions are statements things that can be true or false cf is it raining which is a question not a statement A common sensible and relevant use of ID is we came about through intelligent design not evolution That makes no sense if ID is a statement so ID can t be a statement cf we came about through one phenomenon not the other If ID isn t a statement then it can t be an assertion QED Where do I go wrong Compare ID to lamps Marxism and Goldbach s conjecture I assert that lamps makes no sense because lamps can t be true or false Marxism also can t be true or false But every even integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two primes can be The reason the lead sounds right is because that is the thing that supporters of ID often assert T