intelligent Design a way to kill science?

Question

I find biology interesting and ID people are here to kill off the enthusiasm by saying everything is made by a supreme being.... get it? no further do-it-your-own research is needed to explain phenomenas... just knowing its that supreme being who does it all.

what's wrong with evolution anyway?

http://www.livescience.com/othernews/050923_ID_science.html

Answer 1

The fatal flaw in the "Intelligent Design" argument that its proponents conveniently overlook is that if a "Supreme Being" designed all life, then that Supreme Being is deeply flawed. A worm that burrows its way into babies eyeballs and blinds them? What was that designed to achieve? Or is the Designer just sadistic? Onchocerciasis typically causes blindness in the human host by approximately age 35 years, and is the third leading cause of blindness in Africa. Onchocerca volvulus is transmitted among humans through the bite of blackflies which breed in fast-flowing rivers. Thank-you, "Intelligent Designer"!

Answer 2

Einstein created intelligent design? How ridiculous. Einstein was a physist that believed in the Big Bang, for of the overwhelming evidence and because it was the only way his theory of general relativity could work (i.e. expanding universe).

I've been having some woman debate me about evolution "not being a science" over e-mails here on yahoo. She says it is not observable or that experiments can be made. Of course she supports ID which by definition ISN'T observable and leaves room for experimentation. The hypocrisy is just ludicrous.

Answer 3

There is no scientific evidence for Natural Selection driving the emergence of new species, yet it is treated as scientific fact by the mainstream scientific community.

There is no evidence for evolution per se, but it is treated as fact by the mainstream scientific community.


We can accept all the paleontological evidence such as supporting a 4.5 billion year old earth.

We can accept a vast number of fossil layers with similar life-forms in proximate layers, over billions of years

But there is absolutely no proof that one thing came from another.

That is nothing but a supposition treated as fact.

If would be as if aliens visited earth, and observed two cars of the same model but from two different model years, and concluded that the later came from the earlier.

The truth would be that they were both designed by an intelligence outside of themselves.


An evolutionary process could have occurred, for life on earth, but there is no way to tell either way.

There is no evidence for such.

Natural selection as the driving mechanism of supposed evolution is *pure* supposition.


But Intelligent Design looks at the evidence that a superior designer with intelligence was responsible for life on earth.

This is not pushing religion because it is not specified what the nature of this intelligence is, only that it was intelligent and powerful enough to create.

Intelligent Design simply looks at the evidence for that.


But critics are deathly afraid of Intelligent Design, not because it is not rational, but because it is not a large leap from the bare intelligent designer to the Judeo-Christian God.

The Judeo-Christian God is an intelligent designer, but much more than that.

So if Intelligent Design were taught in our schools, there is a great fear that it would leave students open to accepting the Judeo-Christian God.

That is the real agenda behind the opposition to Intelligent Design.

That is also the agenda behind the absolutely unscientific theory of Natural Selection (that has no evidence at all), because in the movers and shakers minds, Natural Selection disproves God.





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Answer 4

Well evolution makes the link between man and the rest of nature apparent. Many people have egos that cant handle that. They need to feel that the human species was created above and separate from the rest of nature.

Plus, if we were created by the same process of natural selection that a dog or chimpanzee was, admitting it makes it mighty tough to believe that we have a soul that lives forever and they dont.

Answer 5

I don't think that's what intelligent design says at all. It's more like "Isn't science a great way to find out some of God's methods."

I think science is great, I loved my science classes, the only differences is I believe these things happened on purpose, instead of on accident.

Answer 6

Yep, ID really dumbs down everything. Why bother to study or research? Just walk around and say that the invisible person in the sky with super powers made it.

Yep, that makes complete sense.

Answer 7

Evolution is fine, as far as it goes. But it is only a TOOL, one of many that the Intelligent Designer uses to make life on earth.
The only real problem with Darwinian Evolution is that it violates known laws of science, like Thermodynamics [entropy] and Statistics [chaos theory]. Chance cannot overcome these things. A hyperdimensional Intelligence can. Why is this a problem?

Answer 8

Intelligent Design is a scientific theory started by a fellow named Albert Einstein. This idea did not come from the creationist camp. We think it is a good, open-minded step in the right direction, but has a long way to go. Blame the scientific community for that one. We get blamed for enough of our own mistakes.

Answer 9

There is nothing quite so pathetic as people who have to get all their "truth" from a book written thousands of years ago by men who thought the world was flat and disease was caused by demons.

Answer 10

No, its just another pathetic theist attempt to interject faith into the sciences.

It has been happening since Plato, and will continue for as long as theism exists.