Does anyone really believe that intelligent design is more logical than evolution? If so please explain.?

Question

In this day and age there is so much we have learnt and we no longer need the social controls that religion provided hundreds of years ago. Things like tail bones on humans and tiny wings on Osterich's and emu's are a good topic for discussion.

Answer 1

Wow, "intelligent design" and "logical" used in the same sentence. Impressive!

Just read "The Selfish Gene" and stop worrying about what the primitives think.

Answer 2

History has shown, there is an inherent friction between science and religion. The advancement of knowledge through the methodology of science continues to restate the assumptions we make about ourselves and our origin. Case and point, the Catholic Church threaten Galileo with torture if he continued espousing views that the world was not flat.

More specific to your question, the Theory of Evolution is clearly in stark contrast to the literal interpretation of theological teachings. Resistance from those who adhere to literal interpretations should be expected. To further my statement, note that there does not appear to be a concern from the religious community about the Theory of Relativity. Both the concepts of relativity and evolution are theories, but it is only evolution that is considered an issue.

As previously mentioned the term methodology of science is in the simplest of meanings, an iterative practice of hypothesizing, testing, and evaluating results. I have yet to hear a logically sound explanation of how "Intelligent Design" can be incorporated into this methodology. The Theory of Evolution is both comprehensive and complex and is based on empirical evidence from voluminous testing.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then "Intelligent Design" should be taught within the Philosophy Curriculum... right there with Voltaire.

Answer 3

Your evolutionary model does not hold any water, because we are still not seeing all of those missing links that should be out there, so where is your "proof". And what are fossils doing on top of mountains which indicates a worldwide flood. Use the internet to read Luke 17:26-27 and 2Peter 3:5-6 for confermation of such a flood. If this becomes a mind opening event for go to
http://www.carm.org/doctrine/100truths.htm

Answer 4

I believe in physics. In physics, matter cannot be created nor destroyed. If the earth blew up today, ALL of its material would still exist, just in different forms. If you split an atom, all of the protons, electrons, and neutrons still exist. Matter cannot devolve into nothingness.

Therefore, the material for the Big Bang had to come from somewhere. It could not be created naturally because this violates the laws of physics.

Therefore, I believe that God created the laws of nature and the matter that we see. I do not believe, however, that He created planets, animals, plants, and people. I believe that those evolved as a result of His principles playing out over billions of years.

BTW, many religious factions now teach that evolution is real as a way of explaining how so many species could exist after the Flood. You only need one pair of dogs to explain wolves, coyotes, dingos, foxes, dogs, etc. Real space saver on the Arc if you accept that organisms evolve. It is the initial generation of living matter from non-living matter where they diverge from strict evolutionists.

I don't know if my beliefs would constitute 'intelligent design', but...

Answer 5

Intelligent design does not necessarily disagree with Darwinian evolution. It simply makes the case that the Universe was created by some outside being. The Big Bang Theory even states that an outside creating force caused the universe to began. While this is not saying that there was a deity that made the universe it does admit that while we may know what happened in the first nanoseconds of the universe we cannot know how it began. The important thing is to know that intelligent design does not necessarily disagree with Darwinian evolution.

Answer 6

The probabilities of all that is, being brought around by a big bang and then minute cells forming from nothing and producing all this, is staggering. I would say even impossible and yet it is supposed to be less conceivable that all this was intentionally designed and created by a superior being? I find it hard to understand how anyone can even harbor such a notion without being deceived in their thinking. Since such deception could only be introduced by one source, Satan, then people who think this way are proof that there is a God.

Answer 7

Those creationists are silly, aren't they? I mean, get an X-ray for cryin' out loud. We evolutionists aren't the only ones walking around with vestigal tail bones. On what page of the Intelligent Design For Humans specification is that defined? Next!

Answer 8

Just from a historical perspective, I would say no.

In the past EVERYTHING that humans didn't understand was explained by god.

Most of that stuff has been explained scientifically by this point in time and we find out that most of is has NOTHING to do with gods of any name.

If the unexplained had nothing to do with god on all those things why would they have anything to do with god at this point. Just because we haven't figured everything out yet doesn't mean that everything not figured out is explained by god.

Answer 9

I have a problem with evolution explaining the incredible diversity on the planet. All the different human races. Brown eyes/blue eyes. Why are humans the only animal needing clothing? Why would we have "junk" DNA? I think there's more to the equation.

Answer 10

i want to give an example.if you were lonely in a forest and you found a nice woody home containing 3 rooms ,and some furniture where there is nobody.would u suppose that it was just made by chance,falling down of trees with the effect of wind and rats?why when it come to a living creature which is more complex than the home u suppose chance!!!!!