So you think that something like feline animalism is an assertion I dont think Im making myself clear at all then  Your page says you have a BA in Philosophy  are you familiar with much philosophy of language Perhaps youll 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 cant be a statement cf we came about through one phenomenon not the other  If ID isnt a statement then it cant be an assertion QED Where do I go wrong Compare ID to lamps Marxism and Goldbachs conjecture I assert that lamps makes no sense because lamps cant be true or false Marxism also cant be true or false But every even integer greater than  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