It was not started by creationists ,so why has it got Darwinists worried? Some even claim it is politically dangerous.
2007-03-03 22:20:33 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Tentofiel :-Anthony Flew is a prominent atheist and is a supporter of ID.Jonathan Wells is a an advocate of the subject.
2007-03-03 22:44:47 · update #1
ID was started by Thaxton ans Bradely and some others .
2007-03-03 23:04:00 · update #2
I have not mentioned Dembski and Behe and if these are not eminent scientist,then at least they are scientists.
There is culture in the academies that treat proponents of this subject like pariahs,why?And all at taxpayers money.
2007-03-04 08:03:06 · update #3
The ID movement was started in 1984 about 150 years after Darwin do you agree that these scientist would know a lot more than Darwin.This is like trying to bar Einstein against Newton.All I'm saying is why not keep an open mind?What do people have to loose?
2007-03-04 08:17:48 · update #4
The reason Darwinists are worried?
Because this tends to break the monopoly that the religion of Evolution has on most of the Universities. They don't have the same death grip on the academics they used to have.
2007-03-03 22:31:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
Yes, it is politically dangerous, because that's how the ID movement is trying to wedge themselves in. Not by scientific consensus, but by lobbying politicians and school boards. It's like defining the value of Pi by popular vote.
Anyway. You're just namedropping. And trying to impress us with important-sounding words like 'eminent'. Sorry, but science doesn't work that way.
Edit: Creationism was re-labeled Intelligent Design around that time, and all references to the judeo-christian god was dropped in favor of an anonymous 'creator'. Oh, and they accepted that the earth is probably older than 6000 years. That's hardly a revolution, that's more like "Creationism 1.1". More than anything, it was an attempt to bypass the separation of church and state.
By your logic, all people today are smarter than Einstein since he preceded us. But everyone doesn't know what Einstein did, and Michael Behe doesn't necessarily understand what Darwin did. Einstein and Newton knew better than to allow religion to dictate their findings.
Sorry. You don't get to play pretend science and call it real. You have to do it the hard way, which is to follow the evidence. Science isn't about keeping an open mind. It's about separating bad ideas from ones that work.
2007-03-03 23:41:32 · answer #2 · answered by ThePeter 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believe in a Universal Doctrine based on that makes sense, Darwin's theory makes sense so does the storey of the Sermon on the mount by Matthew and the writings of Timothy. If you believe God to be an entity you believe in Idols.
ATB Red
2007-03-03 22:54:20 · answer #3 · answered by Redmonk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
William Dembski and Michael Behe are not "eminent modern scientists". In Kitzmilller v the Dover Area School Board, Dembski was going to testify but chickened out. Behe did testify but to include intelligent design in science, he had to redefine science to include astrology. He was shown to be inadequate as was intelligent design.
ID is just creationism in a different frock. It is religion and as such has no place in science classes in schools.
2007-03-03 22:31:23 · answer #4 · answered by tentofield 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Eminent modern scientists are members of the National Academy of Scientists. 93% of the members reject the possibility of a personal god. 99.86% of the members believe in evolution by natural selection.
The founder of the theory of intelligent design, Michael Behe, is not considered by his colleagues to be eminent. His examples of intelligent design have been refuted point by point.
2007-03-03 22:53:37 · answer #5 · answered by Dendronbat Crocoduck 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Religious people have invented a flawed theory to explain evolution. Intelligent design is so full of holes that it shouldn't ever be considered for a serious debate. Darwin was right (as a christian he didn't want to be!) but facts are facts and since Darwins work was published many people have tried to disprove his findings because they don't fit with the concept of a god creating everything. Many have tried and all have failed. Darwin was right, natural selection works and for my money all this talk of a designing god is absolute rubbish
2007-03-03 22:29:13 · answer #6 · answered by Reg Tedious 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
The first recorded arguments for a natural designer come from Greek philosophy.
2007-03-03 22:26:27 · answer #7 · answered by The Happy Atheist 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely no as It was started before the designed objects, e.g., we being animated objects. In short, intelligent design was an idea of the Intelligent Designer, none other than the God of the Bible. But to those who modify the intent of the phrase "Intelligent Design", I have nothing to do with them.
2007-03-03 22:32:37 · answer #8 · answered by TruthCaster.Com 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
ID'ers or IDiots as some people call them are frauds and liars and their feeble attempt to subvert science has gone badly pear-shaped for them making them and their version of creationism into a ridiculous spectacle world-wide.
Darwinism and evolution are in no danger.
2007-03-03 22:30:37 · answer #9 · answered by CHEESUS GROYST 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
It was invented by a few deluded scientists who still believe in that primitive garbage called christianity.
Luckily the vast majority of scientists don't believe in that junk and it has only got scientists worried in the sense that they are concerned that children might be taught this garbage at school.
If you want to learn more then read Richard Dawkins' excellent book The God Delusion. It will help to educate you mind!
2007-03-03 22:25:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋