The ancients supplied all kinds of great myths to big questions they had no answers for. Are we not doing the same thing today? Insisting that "Intelligent Design" satisfies all the questions about the Universe - isn't that just a way of not admitting ignorance? We do not know how and why we were created, but "Intelligent Design" saves us the embarrassment of admitting it.
We are different from the ancients and their myths in that we have a bit more scientific acumen, but we choose to respond in an ignorant fashion and say god created it, so we don't need to know anything more. Who agrees?
2006-07-11 04:28:46 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Please avoid religious rhetoric, dogma or quotes from a holy book, that only will serve to furhter prove my hypothesis
2006-07-11 04:30:13 · update #1
Please avoid religious rhetoric, dogma or quotes from a holy book, that only will serve to furhter prove my hypothesis
2006-07-11 04:30:20 · update #2
Actually, intelligent design does not intend to answer all of the questions. It is simply an attempt by certain members of the religious right to fight science by positing that certain features of the natural world look like they were designed.
Intelligent design says nothing of any use at all, least of all about the origins of life or of the universe.
I'll add a note that despite common misconceptions, evolutionary theory does not deal with the origins of life either, nor of the universe.
2006-07-11 04:33:09 · answer #1 · answered by noambenami 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't think Intelligent Design is a myth. It is a perfectly coherent philosophical perspective. It is, however, one that cannot be tested as a scientific theory, and therefore has no business in science classrooms.
Myths are more than just made-up stories that answer the unanswerable. They both reflect and reinforce a society's beliefs and views about the "big-picture" questions of life: Who are we? What is our nature? Why are we here? What is our destiny? Many Christians, for example, accept Genesis creation as myth, but it still is instructive about the nature of man - most significant, I believe, is the message that we are our own worst enemy, that we can squander the blessings of life through our selfishness and pride (Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit).
2006-07-11 04:53:44 · answer #2 · answered by jimbob 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does believing in intelligent design really negate our "need to know anything more" ? Some people like the idea of intelligent design better, just becouse it seems to make more since then everything happening by random coincidence--but believing that doesn't make their need to learn more decrease. Most people want to learn and prove whatever they can--whether they believe in god or not.
2006-07-11 04:51:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have hit the nail on the head. It is mythology masquerading as science so it can sneak into the classrooms of america.
Thankfully when one ask questions like; "what testable and verifiable theories does ID have" the whole thing breaks down. Because, quite simply, only IDiots think ID is anything more than mythology.
2006-07-11 04:45:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-14 06:42:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Intelligent Design is code for Biblical Creationism, nothing more,
2006-07-11 04:35:14 · answer #6 · answered by October 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe intelligent design i used to compete with the ever growing facts of the universe & evolution. i mean we live in an era that we know there are no dragons or wizards. because of this i think people are trying to meld church with evolution
2006-07-11 04:33:51 · answer #7 · answered by seamonkey_has_da_loot 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
naw come on, many a great scientist believed in something, not because um um um we don't really know so we'll just say this. Don't scientists do that anyway? How many theories have been unproven? How many scientists have pushed and pushed and pushed THEIR beliefs on people? think about that.
2006-07-11 04:34:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I think it's another way of denying children access to facts, but that's just my opinion.
2006-07-11 04:30:48 · answer #9 · answered by XYZ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good
2006-07-11 04:30:49 · answer #10 · answered by vasan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋