How is Intelligent Design a false compromise?

Question

Maybe you're just threatened by it because it's a TRUE compromise.

Answer 1

Intelligent design ....very very funny.... extremely funny.. LOL WHat the f uck for.... what is the benefit? what is the use of it? Looking at everything I can only talk about an idiotlogical DESIGN. Billions of stars and planets revolving around one another foolishly. Is there a meaning to it ...so that you can call it Intelligent design. You are soooooo funny. You made my day... go and do your victory dance and come back to ask a few more questions.....

Answer 2

I do not know anything about intelligent design theory but as far as my ideas are concerned I have always believed that whatever God has created is created intelligently and not foolishly See how various functions take place in us, animals and plants.Genetics has opened new avenues for understanding how intelligently things have been designed in this world.See that everything in the nature has a purpose.If your intelligence does not enable you to understand that purpose does not mean that there is no purpose.If you think that the colors of the leaves of the plant and of the flowers do not have any purpose, then study botany and you will understand it You have been given intelligence, reasoning power, discrimination etc. with a purpose, use it and find the mysteries of the world.Have an open mind.All religious writings contain lot of interpolations and ideas which have been added by people in the past with certain motives which are not really in consonance with the teachings of the great souls who founded those religions.True religions need not feel threatened about knowledge human beings gather thinking that that knowledge will displace God to the detrment of their organisation and the whole superstructure based on that.

Answer 3

I don't believe that people really understand the concept of Intelligent Design. Many Christians have jumped on its bandwagon, usurped it and twisted it to fit in with their view of the world. Not much different than what many Athiests did with Evolution. Same coin, just the different side.

Intelligent Design theory is scientific. It's a THEORY, just like Evolution is a THEORY. With intelligent design, though, it does not DISCOUNT the possiblity of evolution at the hand of a designer of the universe. The basic premis is this: The complexity of the universe that we've studied thus far is SO complex, that the possibility of a spontaneous, random action, though POSSIBLE, may be UNLIKELY. Therefore, the theory attempts to find evidence of some kind of creator or intelligence behind the universe's systems.

There is nothing inherently religious about it.

Answer 4

The argument for the idea of intelligent design is flawed, for example the argument that the human eye is so well made something like that could not have arisen through a process of evolution. Well the human eye is inferior to the molluscan eye, if God were making us the most important creatures on the earth why did he design the molluscan eye better and give us comparitively poor vision? The human eye is a poor design, if it were a camera the film would be in front of the lens, not so in the molluscan eye it is designed more like a camera, all the neurons are behind the photosensitive cells so they do not impair the vision they also do not have a blind spot, caused in humans by the optic nerve.

Answer 5

Creationism is fiction, mythology, based on no scientific information or observable evidence. Calling intelligent design true is like reading a Harry Potter book and believing the Hogwart School of Magic is real, same principal. Intelligent design is not a compromise, it is not even an option.

Answer 6

How is this important to religion and spirituality? If you do not have faith than what should it matter if you adopt Intelligent Design as a replacement for another religion. It really ends up being a faith in and of itself. Furthermore it is only a theory and was never touted as an absolute truth anyway.

Why is it that the only people who care or argue about this on the Christian side or the Evolutionary Theory side are fanatics and argumentative children? What does it really bring to the table as far as improving humanity? It certainly is not a philosophical exercise. As one is abased on faith which can't be proven or disproven and the other is based on the false assumption that it is a scientific natural law -which is completely false.

Answer 7

The issue at hand here is one of fact versus fiction.

Evolution is one of the fundamental basics of biology and our modern world. My work is steeped in DNA, and you should know that you can see evolution at the genetic level.

Researchers depend on tracking and even predicting the evolution of certain microorganisms. If you do not believe in evolution, then you must not fear getting the bird flu, since it will have to evolve to infect humans.

There’s no magic involved. There’s no higher power directing the spontaneous emergence of new organisms. Life will always find a way, even if it seems inconceivable to the human mind.

Moreover, since evolution has been firmly researched and accepted by the most scholarly of individuals, it would necessarily be the duty of ID to expose the flaws in evolution and show how ID is a better model for explaining biological phenomenon. ID does not explain either and since it abandons scientific rigor it is a dogmatic nontheory, just like religion.

Thus, it is a false compromise. Further, teaching ID is just a way of exposing youth to another flavor of religion, which does not belong in schools.

When I was in college I knew this guy who believed radiocarbon dating was a sham and that the fossil records were fake.
It makes me sick that we live in the year 2006 in a technologically advanced country where tens of millions of people think the earth was created in 6 days. Including the US president, which, of course, should tell you something right there.

Answer 8

According to my friend Darwin, Man came from apes, how come apes still around and didn't became man. He design evolution, a morons theory, maybe he did not read the Bible, in which it says "Things produces its own species"

Intelligent design is not a false compromise, Intelligent design is reality. God design man with body, soul and spriit, each one interrelated to one another. The Body communicate to the physical world, the soul communicated to the body with its 5 senses, and the spirit of man communicate to the spirit world for the soul, take away one of them, that man will surely die. That is what we call intelligent design. In fact he created them in his image and likeness, which means the communicated attributes of God was passed on to his creation.

The DNA was it compromise? It is not, science only proved what has been done by God, a perfect creation so to say.

This Intelligent design controversy is to proved that there is no God at all, and that things pop up like popcorn.

What characteristics would something that was designed by a non-human (superior intelligence) have? If you are open to that possibility, then what characteristics would an object possess, scientifically speaking, that would give evidence to it being designed and not evolving naturally?

In the case of cells and DNA according to Bret, reproduction is possible, which opens up evolution as a possible means by which they reached their current form. I know that evolution is capable of producing highly advanced results so this conjecture of cellular and DNA development is not in any way extraordinary, therefore I'm prepared to accept it on a very provisional basis. The alternate conjecture, that some immensely powerful but otherwise unknown entity took it upon itself to design cells and DNA whilst leaving absolutely no other trace of itself is an extraordinary conjecture, therefore I will tend to reject it unless given very strong evidence that evolution couldn't have done it or fairly strong evidence that it was a separate entity that did it.

Answer 9

We have bigger fish to fry than to argue science vs religion in the subject of the origin of the world.

Is it really that hard to see that it is NOT a matter of compromise. Both religion and science agree on this subject more than they disagree. The argument seems to stem from the timeframe issue: the Bible seems to imply that God created the world in seven CALENDAR days when logic tells us that a creation as massive as the world would take much more time. The same Bible says, "...With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." -- 2 Peter 3:8. Time is a "creation" of man, not of God.

Human eye vs the molluscan eye? The eyes of animals on the earth are different depending on the needs of the animal. The Nautilus, an ancient mollusk, lived in cpmplete darkness, therefore requiring a more complex eye.

Answer 10

Some people say that Intelligent Design is a "false compromise" because it posits creation without mention of God.

It suggests that the universe was created, but does not go so far as to say God created it. It lumps together theories and fantasies ranging from aliens, to a mysterious "higher power," but carefully avoids any reference to religion.

Personally, I think any theory that allows for creationism is better than what we have now.

Answer 11

BULL SH*T... Intelligent Design is a FALSE CONCEPT that the drooling religious right is trying to shove off on the ignorant masses. Intelligent Design is pseudo-science and IS NOT TRUE... there is NOTHING scientific about Intelligent Design.

It just amazes me how the drooling religious right is so quick to try to discredit EVOLUTION... which is NO LONGER A THEORY and hasn't been a theory IN OVER 100 YEARS... and they try to convince intelligent people to not believe the truth... and then they ignore the FACT that there is ABSOLUTELY NO PROOF that GEEZUS even lived....

How can they talk about we need to be guided by "Facts" and then ignore the ones they don't like.

IT'S BETTER TO HAVE A BRAIN AND NO RELIGION THAN TO HAVE A RELIGION AND NO BRAIN.!