Shouldn't Christians back off the whole intelligent design?

Question

I was reading an article about Christian Conservatives making intelligent design a top priority. And that they would like to see it taught in school as a viable option. Im a christian and I feel this is just terrible news, this to me is the equivalant of when you here certain Christians deny the dinosaurs existed because it is "not in the bible" or that evolution did not happen once again because it is "not in the bible".

I have these converstaions many a time with many people and I liken this movement against science to a self imposed blinding.

I feel Christians are acting very very insecure and scared that a different opinion will hurt/destroy the religion when in all actuality it should do nothing more than reinforce the religion.

Intel. Design is a theory it need not be taught in a science class when kids should be learning "real" scientific studies. Not some theory which is religion uner a scientific banner. We should be more secure than that especially if you believe.

Answer 1

Intelligent Design is just a repackaging of silly religious dogma. They are hoping that noone will notice that they are just pushing religion in a new deceptive form. Why Christians are so insecure has always been a mystery to me.

Answer 2

The main thing about intelligent Design is that it is very very much understood. Most people have not read a book or seen a presentation on the subject. It is easy to be mislead by reading a magizine article or a newspaper opinion letter on the subject. ID content is strictly science and we are talking traditional verifiable empirical science unlike Darwinian theory of evolution which often leaves the empirical realm and promotes a more philosopical view since the so called evidence cited for it is terminology and information teaked by its proponents. ID does not consider how things came into being nor specifically who or what produced what we see designed in nature although most people already have the conclusion made that it was a creator or God.

Because many Christians accept and back ID does not make it a non scientific view. Recently a judge ruled that ID could not be taught in a certain school system because Christian or religious groups were mostly the ones seeking to get it taught. Therefore he ruled that ID was a religious viewpoint. That judge misssed a big point. He ruled not on the scientific content of ID but on who was promoting it. What he really did was discriminate against people of fatih, in this case Christians. Just because a group of Christians promote or believe in something does not mean that those beliefs are necessairly religious or should be outlawed. I know that Christians believe in the scientific law of gravity but should it be thrown out because Christians believe in it? Obviously no. It has to also be noted that some of the main proponets of ID are not Christians either. The main Creation organization, Institute for Creation Research Institute or ICR, lukewarmly promotes ID because it does not openly back or promote the Bible.

It is interesting that Darwin in his writtings made reference about a creator but you don't see natural selection being tossed out of the schools because of that. There is empirical evidence to support natual selection but it is not an observed method that leads to one kind of animal turning into another or macroevolution. Clearly the culture war in on for and against ID but if the battlefield is narrowed to empirical science rather than Christian bashing then ID will prevail as valid content for the classroom.

Answer 3

I find this humorous:
"Intel. Design is a theory it need not be taught in a science class when kids should be learning "real" scientific studies."
This is exactly what Creationists have said about evolution for years.

True science will reinforce the Bible; however, distored science which starts with atheistic assumptions will only teach those false assumptions.

The greatest controversy came when people said that science books should simply state, "Evolution is one explanation, and others exist; students should look at the evidence with an open mind." Evolutionists claimed that this was advocating religion. How much evidence do they think their theory has, if they themselves say that people will believe in creation if they look at the evidence with an open mind?

Answer 4

Dear CoolCat

Christians are NOT ACTING very very
Insecure at all.

The majority are INTELLIGENT humanoids ,
they are just "questioning" , the fables/
fairy-tales , that some medium-dark skin
jokers from the Desert wrote .

We are "build' from DNA. There is no PROOF
or otherwise, that IT DID NOT COME FROM
ORION !

The god-theory is no more valid for
Christianity than it is for Muslim and/or ANY
religion . It is born out of HUMAN FRAILTY ....
(understandable), and some deceiving
goat-shepherds in the Desert, writing some
SCROLLS , becoz they had nothing better
to do.

Then they were "translated" by some Benny
Hill types....

Keep in mind , Earth is NO BIGGER than a
speck of DUST , floating in your lounge-room ,
and TRY to get PERSPECTIVE...

iT MAY BE , that Science will save this
little ball Afterall.... (from religionist LUNATICS).....

Answer 5

ID can be taught in a theology class, I guess, but certainly not a science class. There's nothing scientific about it. I think Christians just need to give it up. There is too much evidence supporting Evolution. Besides, you can still have ID and Evolution working together. God created the Universe, and we evolved from it. The end.

Answer 6

Evolution and creation are compatible, unless you're a Fundamentalist. In the first chapter of Genesis, God creates animals before mankind. The creation of man refers to the creation of the souls of Adam and Eve. No where in the Bible does it say "mankind does not evolve". My view is that Genesis was used as an allegorical representation of how mankind got here. When God dictated the Torah/Penteteuch to Moses, do you really think Moses or any of the Israelites would have understood evolution? They would've been confused out of their minds, so God made it easier and said he created them from dirt.

Answer 7

OK, that's fine. What should be taught then? If you can't teach intelligent design because its a theory, should you not also be allowed to teach evolution? That's a theory as well. Maybe we should just take out all teaching on the origins of life.

Answer 8

*sigh* the main individuals pushing clever layout/Creationism are from AUSTRALIA.... no longer usa. We in simple terms have a tendency to permit this manner of element to run rampant as quickly because it gets right here. i'm so bored with individuals thinking that in simple terms because of the fact our media enables it to be performed and we see it better than maximum different places, that individuals immediately think of it began right here. under are some sites showing you that it is being finished in countless different places... Australia being between the incredible. The final website shows that it will learn in Queensland faculties, In technology instructions. usa would not instruct id (the 2d website there shows what our considerable college boards think of of it). it is not in simple terms human beings.... it is not even countless human beings.... you could discover stats that say over 50% have self belief in it.... whether it is not 50% pushing it to earnings in our colleges.

Answer 9

I'm taking a class now that deals with those issues. We are learning history through science, and religion through documents but we are left to form our own personal opinion. We are being taught both so I like the fact that we can discern for ourselves what we will.

Answer 10

Shouldn't Christians back off the whole intelligent design? In favor of unintelligent chaos?