2006-07-24 06:06:04 · 16 answers · asked by SurferRose 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
The answer to the question of where is the proof
of intelligent design is that there isn't any. The
authors who are most prominent in this area are
Johnson, Dembski and Behe. Their favorite
examples of "irreducible complexity", which they
claim indicates intelligent design, are blood clotting
and the human eye. Both of these are already
demonstrated NOT to be irreducibly complex.
In any case, even if such a thing as irreducible
complexity exists, which is doubtful, it would be a
sign or UNintelligent design. Something made so
that failure of one small part causes the whole
thing to break down is badly designed. Good
design includes backups and failsafes.
As for faith, this is not a source of knowledge of
anything. Along with hope, wish, belief, opinion,
revelation, emotional desire, faith is just an expression of what people would like to believe or
think they ought to believe. One can believe some
thing passionately, have the utmost faith in it, think
it must surely be true, and be one hundred percent
flat wrong. The world is as it is, not as we would
like it to be.
2006-07-24 09:13:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
And there lies the rub with believers of Intelligent Design...it requires "faith." ID simply cannot be tested as a scientific hypothesis...ergo it is not a "scientific" theory. It is a religious theory.
As for eveolution, there is plenty of evidence...from the fossil record to lab experiments breeding bacteria (which have very short lifespans where we have observed evolution take place). Flu and cold viruses are also a perfect example of observed evolution. Anybody who believes in Intelligent Design should never get a flu shot...because to get a flu shot would mean that you believe in the ability of the flu virus to evolve.
2006-07-24 13:19:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess a creationist should say The Holy Bible is their scientific proof but not all Christians are fundamentalists or Evangelical Christians that take the Bible literally word for word and believe there are no metaphors of note in The Bible. Most Christians believe that the colorful stories in The Bible teach a moral lesson. There really are a great deal of Christians that believe we evolved like science suggests. Being pro-evolution is not anti-Christian.
2006-07-25 01:53:55 · answer #3 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The nice things about Faith based beliefs is that it requires not proof, just faith. It does make it difficult for the scientific mind to accept. Some people just require a higher degree of proof than others to believe in a concept.
2006-07-24 13:14:18 · answer #4 · answered by Mr Cellophane 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is possible to prove that no such proof is possible. (And, doesn't that sound contorted! But, bear with me, please.) It should be obvious that any statement imputing influence of God on descent of life (or on anything, for that matter) is in principle irrefutable: there is no way whatever to demonstrate that it did not happen. Now it is provable that the usefulness (i.e., predictive power) of any theory obtains strictly from its refutability. It immediately follows that every theory of intelligent design is useless: it could be correct, but there is no way to tell, and no difference whether right or wrong.
Evolution, on the other hand, is established science. The word "established" means, in this context, that the theory is routinely used by workers in the field to make predictions which they consider useful (because they are correct). This, by itself, would be quite adequate grounds for accepting the theory, even if there were no other evidence supporting it. But, of course, there is such evidence, and it is overwhelming. The bottom line is that anyone who rejects evolution in favor of divine intervention theories has fallen prey to superstitious nonsense.
2006-07-24 13:18:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It just makes sense. It makes a lot more sense than God blowing through the nese of a figure of man made out of clay and that figure suddenly becoming flesh and coming to life. Also, the account in Genesis in the Holy Trinity bible says that God formed man out of the "slime" of the Earth and breathed his energy upon it. That sure makes a lot more sense than the King James version and is very compatible with the intelligent design theory.
2006-07-24 18:42:28 · answer #6 · answered by Brenda J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ironic thing is it takes faith to believe in science. For instance. Take the Big Bang theory. A catastrophic explosion that occurred several hundred billion years ago. Do we have any proof of this massive ancient explosion? NO!! No one and no THING couldve possibly been there to see it.
2006-07-24 16:42:55 · answer #7 · answered by the man 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can disprove.
They brought intelligent design because they argue that such a complex life form can not evolve them selves. There should be something which is a higher intelligence then us which created us. Then one should ask who created that super intelligent being.
So if we continue this logic eventually they have to agree it is an evolution.
2006-07-24 14:33:31 · answer #8 · answered by Dr M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Believers in Evolution: where's your scientific proof?
really, even darwin said that if they couldnt find any of the missing links that he said that there would be, then he was wrong...
also, dont confuse micro-evolution with macro evolution...
2006-07-24 13:13:51 · answer #9 · answered by jasonalwaysready 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Scientists point to a big bang theory. In Genesis, it states that on the first day, god created the heavens. If there was no sun at the time, who's to say how long that first day was?
2006-07-24 13:10:48 · answer #10 · answered by slongholio 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋