The answer to the question raised by the post is “Yes, theism is wrong, and we don’t have good words for the thing that looks a lot like theism but has less unfortunate connotations, but we do know that calling it theism would be stupid.”
Sure we do: it is called “intelligent design”—or more specifically, intelligent design of life and/or the universe.
Your general point in your linked piece is sound, because one can imagine eventually falsifying at least some of the proposed theories you list, but you do wrong to say Kitzmiller is problematic. It was a legal finding, based on testimony and hard evidence, that the folks claiming that Intelligent Design was science, were in fact tantamount to a conspiracy to dress “Creationism” in new clothes. Creationism had already been declared a fundamentally religious doctrine, and not a scientific theory. That was settled law. The folks who brought in ID actually had discussion with one another about how best to convert Creationist texts into ID texts and pamphlets without them being recognizable as creationism.
These were charlatans of the worst sort, caught in their own lies. I suggest reading the decision.
Sure we do: it is called “intelligent design”—or more specifically, intelligent design of life and/or the universe.
My article on the topic: Viable Intelligent Design Hypotheses.
Your general point in your linked piece is sound, because one can imagine eventually falsifying at least some of the proposed theories you list, but you do wrong to say Kitzmiller is problematic. It was a legal finding, based on testimony and hard evidence, that the folks claiming that Intelligent Design was science, were in fact tantamount to a conspiracy to dress “Creationism” in new clothes. Creationism had already been declared a fundamentally religious doctrine, and not a scientific theory. That was settled law. The folks who brought in ID actually had discussion with one another about how best to convert Creationist texts into ID texts and pamphlets without them being recognizable as creationism.
These were charlatans of the worst sort, caught in their own lies. I suggest reading the decision.