2007-02-09 19:29:58 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Its just a word. It means "something intelligent designed it". It doesn't mean that ID is intelligent.
2007-02-09 19:32:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Intelligent Design is based on the theory that something (1) intelligently (2) complex can only be made by an even more intelligent and complex entity. That's pure logic and intelligence. Wait, I guess the atheistic theory is much better, huh? Yeah, the universe just popped out of nowhere and here we are. Wait, maybe the very first matter...created itself? Idiot theories. You think human intelligence can be without an even greater intelligence behind it? The first matter? The first life? Astrophysical laws? Yeah, pure chance and randomness. Amazing, one tiny piece of matter existed (no one knows where it came from), the big bang happens (no one knows hy or how), gazzillions of galaxies are created, then wow, physical laws starty to exist, planets, water, trees, mountains, stars, orbits, AMAZING! We get light, energy, WOW, LIFE FOR CRYIN' OUT LOUD! Let's see, endless animal/insect/bird species, bacteria, viruses, germs, a whole universe, endless systems and balances, gravity, countless stable laws that govern the universe, wow, HUMANS? CAN'T BE! Human intelligence, human life, human *consciousness*, amazing, cycles of life, mating, instincts, whoa, heavy stuff. And how does an atheist explain all that? "Eh, pure chance". Yep, THAT is intelligence, not intelligent design.
I'm not a follower of any religion (they all suck, 'cept one or two), but I do believe there must be a god in this universe that created human intelligence, consciousness, life, the first matter, astrophysical laws, etc.
2007-02-10 04:35:39 · answer #2 · answered by Psychotic Clown 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I realize you are being flippant, but, would you care to defend the underlying assumption(s) of the question? Perhaps then you would receive some cogent and thoughful responses.
Intelligent Design, by definition, is intelligent in that the concept assumes a supernatural being that is self-existent, immutable, sovereign, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent spoke creation into existence. This being, God, was the First Cause of all creation and is the logical answer to the logical argument that if something exists it must have had a cause. Scientists can regress creation to moments before the Big Bang, but ultimately fail to explain the cause of the event. Formalized logic yields only one answer to the argument, if there was a start to the universe, there must have been a cause.
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2007-02-10 03:54:11 · answer #3 · answered by Ask Mr. Religion 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Very true.
What is more intelligent?
Believing that an extremely intelligent creature popped out of nowhere and created everything?
Or believing that everything started out simple and very gradually became more complex?
I am getting to the point that I laugh, then sigh, when I hear a Christian spewing bullshit.
Its funny stuff, how they could possibly believe it, but then I get overcome with sadness about how stupid people are.
2007-02-10 04:19:16 · answer #4 · answered by Dr. Bradley 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It should be called Political Design.
2007-02-10 04:01:43 · answer #5 · answered by novangelis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you see, the nature of all energergy is to equal out.
So as this primordial pool of chemicals sat,.. all of the chemical energy was used up. Yet lets say that chemical bouancy alloud this pool to settle into layers. Then some amino acids where swirled around into a cell wall by the wind. Then all you have is the possiability of controlled ozmosis. So two different chemicals are seperated by a makeshift cell wall. It still needs at lease 16 different complex components to reproduce, as in the most simple life forms.
The odds of this happeneing are like 1 out of 9999 to the billionth power.
2007-02-10 03:56:09 · answer #6 · answered by simplysorted 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Complex pattern recognition is not intelligent?
You believing in evolution makes intelligent design unintelligent?
Wow, you might want to lose the personal bias, pal.
-Aztec276
2007-02-10 03:35:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
The answerer who said something about malevolent design might have something there.With all the viruses, harmful parasites, diseases, desease carrying insects, and the kill or be killed existence animals have to live by, not to mention some humans, it sounds pretty malevolent to me.
2007-02-10 03:59:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is called intelligent design because a rational being (God) created something out of nothing. In contrast to evolution, wherein things just happened without a reason.
2007-02-10 03:33:51 · answer #9 · answered by adonisMD 3 · 3⤊ 4⤋
I would venture to say that you have not studied Intelligent design at all. There is a much evidence for that theory as there is for evolution as far as Darwinism. Science should study all theories and look at all evidence. Science today is so busy trying to prove evolution that they are as guilty as Creationists of only looking at evidence that fits their theory.
2007-02-10 03:42:13 · answer #10 · answered by mark g 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋