 Buried in all that was his discovery that the orbits are elliptical. Don't we have to be a little careful about dismissing people with far-out ideas like intelligent design, even if they do come from religion? Absolutely, but let's see their ideas. Let's see what they have to offer. There are lots of wild and wonderful and crazy revolutionary hypotheses out there in evolutionary biology land that are not in the textbooks and that aren't taught in the schools because the people haven't yet been able to marshal the case for them.