Intelligent Design......?

Question

How many of you have read anything on this subject?
Science is finally getting away from the THEORY of Evolution and are now gravitating toward Intelligent design.
They won't say it's GOD but they do say that there is a higher being who created us.

magneto - For years science and schools have been pushing the THeory of Evolution down our throats with no evidence .....can YOU prove that God does not exist......remember you are staking your eternity on this.

Answer 1

Yes you are correct-and most people think that ID is a christian plan to get creation in the public schools. Its really funny that ID is a scientific theory and most evolutionist scoff at it. The leaders have ran off and left the followers.

Answer 2

*Reconciling Science and Religion :

"Science and religion [are] no longer seen as incompatible."
--"The Daily Telegraph", London - May 26, 1999

http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2002/6/8/article_01.htm


Do You See More Than Your Eyes Do?
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2000/8/22a/article_01.htm

LIFE--A Product of Design :
... Copying Life's Marvelous Designs
..... Learning From Designs in Nature
....... The Great Designer Revealed
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2000/1/22/article_01.htm

Can Science Help You to Find God? :
... Is It Unscientific to Believe in God?
..... Why Some Scientists Believe in God ...
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2004/6/22/article_01.htm

The Awesome Universe—Where Did It Come From? :
... What the Big Bang Explains - What It Doesn't
..... So Mysterious, yet So Beautiful
.......'Something is Missing' - What?
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/1996/1/22/awesome_universe.htm

The Universe—Did It Come About by Chance? :
... Our Awesome Universe - Product of Chance?
..... Did the Elements Come About by Chance?
....... The Earth - Was It Founded by Chance?
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2000/10/8/article_01.htm

You can see -- by the titles & subtitles alone -- that Jehovah's Witnesses have 'discussed' the subject of creation many times. (The above articles are only a small sampling.) Always upholding the Bible's presentation of creation ... For an example, see "The Creative Days--24 Hours Each?"*

It pays to ...

"Make Sure of All things; Hold Fast to what is Fine!" 1 Th 5:21

Answer 3

The problem with that is what came first. If there was nothing, and god created us, where did he come from? Who created him? The only explanation is that the universe was never nothing. It never began or ended, so is runs in a continuous cycle. Only some scientists say there was an intelligent designer, most don't. Science does have its bad moments, where it abandons fact and reason, so maybe this will one day happen again resulting in most accepting there is a god. But mostly we have moved beyond that, just as we know the earth is not flat. Some are too dull to grasp evolution, so they can't think on their own to create their own theory. Then they turn to the simple, childish, ridiculous "god did it'. Luckily, we can still see clearly enough to dismiss religion.

Answer 4

Intelligent design is not a science. It's taking things you don't know the answer to and saying "God did it." It's a juvenile position. Society would be nowhere today if they looked at rain, didn't know where it came from, and said "God did it." Think of all the discoveries that would have never been made if everything were explained away with God. Most scientists don't back ID. Most scientist support the Theory of Evolution. And if you have something against the word "theory" don't forget, gravity is a theory. And I don't see you floating around.

Answer 5

the believers in the random chance theories (big band and evolution being the main two) are slowly beginning to realize the very high improbability of their theories working out, miniscule odds to the point of near impossibility. So they have to revise and put a causing force at the beginning of it, something to give the universe a push and get it going. But they dont want to recombine science and religion, because then science will once again become a religious pursuit and progress will be heavily stifled, so the scientific community avoids connecting ID to God so they dont have to make the one decision that would destroy science for ever: Once they admit God, they have to say which God, and then no matter which they pick, the majority of the world will hate science.

Answer 6

DARWINS THEORY IS NO MORE!
In Asia, Africa and Australia lives a remarkable creature the archerfish that shoots down its prey from the air above it with a burst of water. It uses its tongue and the top of its mouth to form a groove simiilar to a gun barrel. Then by compressing its gills it squirts water up to six feet with deadly accuracy -- in spite of the distortion caused by seeing the target from below the surface of water.
Evolutionists still don't know how the archerfish got its amazing abilities.They can only wonder. Viewid through the distortion of evolution they cannot explain how the archerfish gradually learned to not aim where its eyes see but to aim instead at a different spot where the target actually is.
Without its binocular vision it couldnot see the object with such precision and without the special shape of the upper mouth and a specialized tongue it could not make the groove it needs to shoot lthe concentrated jet of water. Many factors have to appear together and be perfectly formed for this shooting mechanism to work. This of course goes totally against Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory which is based on a gradual step by step process.
Darwin wrote in (The Origin of Species)-- "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous successive slight modifications my theory would absolutely break down"(1859, p. 171).
The archerfish offers precisely such an example since several complex systems must all appear at the same time perfectly and not gradually formed--binocular vision,a specialized mouth and tongue, specialized gills to compress and expel water and an aiming system based in the brain and not in the eyes. If any of these parts is missing the mechanism will not hit the target and no survival advantage is created.
When you get down to the facts the archerfish with one squirt of its gills shoots down Charles Darwin's entire theory of evolution and that by Darwin's own admission!!!
So evolution doesn't have the answer to this mystery. But the Bible does. Genesis 1:20-21 says that God created all the creatures that live in the water. He created a great variety of perfectly formed fish including the archerfish with all its special features such as binocular vision other specialized organs and a built in ability to compenste for the distortion of the water.

Answer 7

What scientists? As far as I know, science is the chief opponent of ID. Evolution is generally accepted; it is questioned by a few renegades who are looking to make big, albeit controversial, names for themselves. But I haven't read much scientific literature in which researchers theorize about a creator. "Science" that espouses ID is really pseduo-science, new-age, quasi-theology, etc. Real scientists would never be able to have good standing at the university level or in the private sector if they were to maintain strong ties to ID.

Answer 8

Proof #11 - Notice that there is no scientific evidence

There is no scientific evidence indicating that God exists. We all know that. For example:

God has never left any physical evidence of his existence on earth.

None of Jesus' "miracles" left any physical evidence either. (see this page)

God has never spoken to modern man, for example by taking over all the television stations and broadcasting a rational message to everyone.

The resurrected Jesus has never appeared to anyone. (see this page)

The Bible we have is provably incorrect and is obviously the work of primitive men rather than God. (see this page)

When we analyze prayer with statistics, we find no evidence that God is "answering prayers." (see this page)

Huge, amazing atrocities like the Holocaust and AIDS occur without any response from God.

And so on…
Let's agree that there is no empirical evidence showing that God exists.
If you think about it as a rational person, this lack of evidence is startling. There is not one bit of empirical evidence indicating that today's "God", nor any other contemporary god, nor any god of the past, exists. In addition we know that:

If we had scientific proof of God's existence, we would talk about the "science of God" rather than "faith in God".

If we had scientific proof of God's existence, the study of God would be a scientific endeavor rather than a theological one.

If we had scientific proof of God's existence, all religious people would be aligning on the God that had been scientifically proven to exist. Instead there are thousands of gods and religions.
The reason for this lack of evidence is easy for any unbiased observer to see. The reason why there is no empirical evidence for God is because God is imaginary

Answer 9

I can give you arguments for BOTH sides. Once I presented the Geologic Column in small-group discussion in church and ran in some opposition UNTIL I pointed out the flaws. Another time, I explained C-14 dating, and THEN showed that it's not as scientific as most scientist would have us believe.

Conversely, I.D. has some problems of its own. However, when all the arguments are taken together both for and against each one, I.D. is seen as the more reasonable (and therefore, scientific) proposition.

Answer 10

Why cant u call that higher being as God?

Answer 11

Religion is just one big fight over who has the best imaginary freind. Grow up.