Death and life are in the power of the tongue…
Proverbs 18:21a

There is tremendous power in words.  In Genesis it simply states “and God said…” and it was done!  In John 6:63 Jesus Christ said “…the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”  So there is power in the words from God.  There is also power in man’s words.  The importance given today to “political correctness” lies in part to the influence of redefining common words to impart new (allegedly more socially acceptable) meanings.  If a particular view or behavior has a name with a negative overtone, just rename it to something, more positive! Many a politician has been absolved of lying by the “misspoken” word.

The battle between Creationism (Which also applies to ID in part) and Darwinism is for the most part a war of words.  Name calling innuendo and mud slinging makes the discussion look more like a political debate, and so it is.  If the Darwinist camp can equate in the populations mind Creationism and religious fundamentalist, the victory is already won; surely that cannot possibly compete with “science”.  So the tactic is to try to win with name calling, before the shaky evidence is brought forth and honestly compared.

A typical example of this is the term “Intelligent Design Creationism”, a dishonest use of terms to lump the ID movement with Creationism and then call the whole thing “religion” and not “science”.  The merits of ID and Creationism stand on their own grounds and work within their own areas of discipline.  Neither are “religion” which is a personal or institutionalized system grounded in a belief of God. Religions are the man made doctrines the Bible is “The Word of God”.  Creationism is based on the assumption that science can be explained by the Bible.  ID does not deal with Biblical knowledge, but is a scientific discipline.  But by dubbing both religion, both are equated with speculation, personal belief and not with what most have been led to believe is science.

Proponents of Darwinism would like to redefine Science itself (and has used the US court system to do so) so that by its very definition it will rule out a Creator or any form of intelligent agent.  If science cannot study the impact of an intelligent agent, Darwinists have conveniently removed ID from consideration.  But the courts cannot determine what is scientific and what is not, the evidence must to that.