How can anybody actually fall for intelligent design?

Question

PLZ read this first!...

Evolution is WAY more likely than God.

Evolution starts from very simple molecules, that slowly, gradually become complex creatures. This is not chance! It is the OPPOSITE! Super complex things like humans aren't suddenly, miraculously created, it takes billions of years, of natural selection. How is it easier to believe in some supernatural God that creates complex things so easily? "Oh, because look around at nature", says a Christian, "I can't see how everything could be so complex without a God".

It is sad that most Christians don't realize how much more easier it is to believe evolution and not a magical God. This next part should be enough to make ALL Christians aware of the obvious misunderstanding they have.

Wouldn't it be harder to believe that a god more complex than the universe just suddenly appeared, than to believe that the universe didn't start out complex, but gradually evolved? Adding a god is just making things even more complicated

Answer 1

Charles Darwin is my hero.

Most creationists don't accept evolution because they see evolution as this random act, without realizing that natural selection is anything but random.

When creationists use the 'beauty of nature' argument in favor of creation and God's existence, I don't think they understand that nature is also AIDS, cancer, and murder.

Answer 2

Seems I've heard this refrain before. Whether things just suddenly appeared (which I don't believe) or happened over eons of years, mindless matter, molecules, atoms, ether or whatever do limited functions which they are programmed or created to do. They don't have inherent intelligence. There are many scientists who now believe in intelligent design and more are leaning toward it. The complex God or master intelligent didn't just suddenly appear, he has always been. Intelligence, design and purpose would not be created in any amount of time just by evolving and evolving. Design, intelligence and purpose can't just bring themselves together from various elements in nature.

Answer 3

How about thinking outside the box for a change? How about considering that there is a G-d and He could speak things into existence. Apparently this boggles the minds of some, however we are dealing with things that are so complex that many aspects of that which life comes from all had to be present at the same time for them to "spontaneously" create life.

Frankly, the issue isn't the scientific aspect of things, it's that you realize that you will need to have to deal with G-d, with His Son Yeshua Ha Maschiach and His word, some of which may have an impact on your lifestyle.Frankly, G-d's lifestyle is more worthy of your consideration than that which I've seen among many non-believers. But aside from that, there is evidence and that from the scientific circle which in effect debunks much of your cherished evolutionary theories. I have posted one link which contains information that is relevant to the debate and you will find more in Lee Strobels book "The Case for a Creator" Strobel was an atheist, but has become an apologist for faith in G-d.

I will also post an apologetic of mine own (which G-d blessed me with) which, when combined with others on the site will give you some additional understanding.

Answer 4

Stupid question for an answer, but why do the two have to be completely separate? Why could a creator have not started evolution? I'm not giving my opinion just asking why the question has to be one of black or white and not shades of grey.

The way intelligent design gets pushed is just a way of trying to teach mythology as science. That is what gets many upset, not the ideas behind it but how it is being pushed and the ones pushing it want only their "creator" mentioned without discussing any of the others.

Answer 5

Intelligent design certainly keeps the plastic surgery business booming! You don't think those bodies...evolved that way, do you?

I like the saying that people should stop focusing on how the world began and how it's going to end and focus on what's happening now.

I don't see how looking at evolution or creationism really helps with spiritual matters. It doesn't even help all that much with science, unless you're looking at how species develop over time or something like that. Most scientists, though, just don't think much about how the world started and just get on with whatever they're studying.

Why can't religious people do the same? Oh, people just LOVE to waste time on irrelevant sh!t!

Answer 6

Sure, a big bang from nothingness created everything, thats way more logical! And you guys think christians are illogical?

Evolution is fact, but not the kind of evolution you're talking about. Man evolved, is still evolving, every generation gets taller and supposedly smarter. The first humans were black, but those that moved to the colder climates hair, eyes and skin lightened because they didn't need so much pigmentation, but we did not evolve from apes, and not from a big bang. We evolved from man. Birds and reptiles evolved from dinosaurs, dogs evolved from wolves. Evolution exists, but there's a beginning for all things, and it wasn't a big bang from nothingness.

Answer 7

technological information could study at college. the information, the way it replaced into achieved, what has been got here upon--those are the backbone of technological information. yet technological information can not advise lots without interpretations as to meaning. Evolution is the reigning paradigm governing those interpretations on the 2nd, and in that easy could actual study. it truly is not a certainty aside from easy speciation, even nonetheless, and should not study as such. i in my opinion do not techniques if creationism isn't taught. I do think of, even nonetheless, that annoying situations to the evolution interpretation could be reported, and the belief of thoughts to that interpretation be reported. yet as for easily injecting a non secular point of view into the debate in terms of the Bible, the Koran, the Vedas, or the different non secular artwork--which could be a stable undertaking for a term paper to evaluate distinct innovations, even nonetheless it truly is not a stable concept for technological information lecture room learn. on condition that evolution itself is an concept this is amazingly pervasive, even nonetheless, it actual could be a piece of the curriculum, even nonetheless it would not be dealt with as some sort of icon immune from undertaking or disagreement. to realize this is to disallow pupils to think of their very own way with the aid of information and available meanings. we desire scientists-in-education, not robots.

Answer 8

If you ask me, it takes more faith to believe in evolution than it does creationism. You can laugh. You probably just did. But the statement still stands. Seriously consider something that you probably don't think about everyday, and probably haven't seen. For example, your own DNA. Are you telling me that your very own DNA somehow taught enzymes to run up and down like a zipper on the strands, replicating itself? On a broader scale, and getting into nature, who taught birds to go south every winter, and return when it began to grow warmer? If you want to tell me "how much more easier it is to believe evolution", that's fine. No offense intended, but ignorance is bliss--for a while, perhaps. When you die, you are welcome to stand before God and tell Him a thing or two about how He didn't create the earth. If you can. I don't want you to have to be in that position in that state. Also, you inferred that God simple "appeared". He didn't. He has always been.

Isaiah 26:4 NIV
Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal.

1 Timothy 1:17
Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

What exactly does "eternal" mean? According to Merriam-Webster's online dictionary:

1 a : having infinite duration
2 a : continued without intermission
3 archaic
4 : valid or existing at all times

According to http://dictionary.reference.com, some definitions for "eternal" are:

1. without beginning or end; lasting forever; always existing (opposed to temporal)
2. perpetual; ceaseless; endless
3. enduring; immutable

God didn't just jump in at one point in time, He always WAS!

Revelation 4:8
..."Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come."

However, just as God is eternal, in the same way life after death is as well. Either you are eternally in His presence, or you are eternally separated by your own choice. He does not sit up in heaven, zapping people who make the slightest mistake with lighting! You know the jist of John 3:16. God loved you so much that He sent His begotton Son to die for your punishments in place of you! It has been suggested that, perhaps the reason that God, who is holy, hates sin so much is because it separates us from Him, and He loves us! He loves you, and does not want you to suffer for all of eternity. If I had to guess, I would say that you are an atheist, or at least an agnostic. If so, then perhaps you might be interested in finding out that it is dubious there is such a thing as an atheist. The link below ought to explain more:

http://eefen.wetpaint.com/page/Atheism

I hope that this helps, God bless you!

Answer 9

And where did all that information come from?? natural selection involves a LOSS of information, whereas macroevolution requires a GAIN of information, not to mention the fact that you can't even explain how the "molecules" got there in the first place.

Answer 10

Have you actually READ anything by any of the major proponents of ID? Try that before you criticize. William Dembski will probably fry your little brain.

And BTW, ID doesn't suggest the Biblical God. It suggests a Deistic God, the "god of the philosophers." ID is no friend of fundamentalism.