what do people make of intelligent design?

Answer 1

it can be backed and proven by science.

http://www.godandscience.org/

Answer 2

Intelligent design is a new phrase to discribe an old idea. In the 1970's, a person who believed in intelligent design was called a 'Theistic Evelotionist', which I feel is a more accurate discription. These a people that feel that the evidence to support evolution is too great to ignore, but they do not want to abondon their faith in God either. In their mind, evolution is just the method that God used. The existance of God is a metaphysical one. Metaphyical is something that can not be proved by using the laws of physics and chemistry. Once proven by physics or other sciences, it is no longer metaphysical.

People that don't believe in a higher power, thing that inteligent design is hooey, but those that feel there is a greater power find it easier to embrace intelligent design over pure chance. The beauty of intelligent design is that it can't be proven or disproven.

Answer 3

Intelligent my hind foot-
which has only 7 delicate bones in the instep. Not v. bright.
1) Blind cave fish-They have eyes- they just don't work. Why bother to make an eye that doesn't work.
2) giraffes- 7 bones in their necks like all other mammals. Ever see a giraffe try to bend down to get a drink? A loving designer would have tried for a little more flexibility
3) the duck billed platypus. Oh come on. That's not designing. That's screwing around. It has fur but a ducks bill and webbed feet. It nurses it's young but lays eggs. And it's venomous. The only mammal that is. You designer is a practical joker
Oh just admit this is a no very clever way to get Genesis back in the classroom and shut up about it.
The only "scientists" who subscribe to this are religious nutjobs who have to be kept in boxes with little tiny airholes.

Answer 4

The debate is whether Intelligent Design should or should not be taught in science class. The answer is NO, because it is not science. It is a Trojan Horse, a red herring... it is creationism in disguise, relabeled as "Intelligent Design", and tarted up to fool the scientifically illiterate into thinking that it IS 'science'.

The objectives of the creationists who are promoting ID are spelled out in the Discovery Institute's so-called 'Wedge Strategy' (http://www.antievolution.org/features/wedge.html), which is a political strategy. The main plan is to "teach the controversy"... that being the claim that many scientists reject evolution... except that it is a lie... there IS NO controversy within the scientific community. The ultimate aim is the subversion of science itself, changing the definition of science to include supernatural explanations, rather than it being restricted to natural explanations. Here is the difference:

* At the bleeding edge of science, at the point where it REALLY starts to get interesting, science says: "We don't know... OK, boys... let's roll up our sleeves, dig in and find out."

* At the bleeding edge of science, at the point where it REALLY starts to get interesting, Intelligent Design (imagine South Park - Officer Barbrady) says: "That's too complicated. God did it. Move along. Nothing to see here. Everybody go home now."

The Wedge Strategy's overall objective is this (quoted directly from the Wedge Strategy): "Discovery Institute's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture seeks nothing less than the overthrow of (scientific) materialism and its cultural legacies."

You should check out the judge's opinion in the Dover School Board trial... that explains the issue quite nicely. (http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site515/2005/1220/20051220_085143_kitzdecision.pdf)

I don't know anybody who objects to Intelligent Design being taught in public schools... as an elective, perhaps, or in a comparative religion class... just not in science class.

Answer 5

I don't understand how people can look at the evidence, the world around them, and just use some common sense and still believe it. We evolved that is why we still have the genes for a tail, or did God just include those just in case? I wish people would realize you can be religious and not have to believe in creatonalism and intelligent design. It is one of those things that will be debated for years yet it will eventually reach a point when it becomes normal for the majority of Christians to believe in evolution. This will be just like the astronomers vs. the Catholic church. Originally few believed the astronomers that we were not teh center of the universe, yet now I would venture to say that an overwhelming majority of Christians would say of course we are not the center of the universe.

Answer 6

It is just the new and improved version of the age old unproven theory of create ism, just the old theories re-packaged in a way to cover up the religious aspects .

Answer 7

It's propaganda started by the religious right to support their "theory", which is really just another origin myth, like any other religious culture. It is NOT science - evolution is science, and it can be proven.

Answer 8

It's very good science! Many follow this!

Answer 9

if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's probably creationism! I rest my case.

Answer 10

it's not science.