Life's but a walking shadow

I like Peter Woit, as he is skeptical of new paradigms:

For the life of me I can't figure out why smart physicists and philosophers can't see the obvious fact that is staring them in the face. You don't need a new paradigm of how to do science, the old one works just fine. If you have a conjectural theoretical scientific idea, there are two ways in which it can turn out to be wrong. Either it predicts something that disagrees with experiment, or it is so vacuous that it predicts nothing. The evidence is now overwhelming that, if string theory is consistent at all, it is wrong for the second reason.

Exercise for the reader: Explain which of the two reasons invalidates the "intelligent design" hypothesis.

UPDATE: Fafblog is a fan of the new science paradigm. Since Fafblog is the best blog, and the Fafblog, I cannot argue.