What evidence is there to support the Intelligent Design Theory?

Answer 1

Lots.
Check out the website of this Christian astrophysicist:
http://www.reasons.org/

Answer 2

There is none. At least in Behe's ("Darwin's Black Box") formulated there can be none. Behe's argument is not to prove or demonstrate something but to argue that a naturalistic explanation of the development of life can never be formulated.

In the tenth anniversary update edition Behe clarifies (in a footnote reference to an article in a journal) what he means:

"By 'intelligent design' (ID) I mean to imply design beyond the laws of nature"

Now science looks at the laws of nature, for the laws of nature. To say it is "beyond the laws nature" says a few things:

1. Science with NEVER be able to give a description of it
2. We will never be able to detect the effects of it.

Akin to big-bang theory. At the singularity before the bang nothing can be predicted as all natural laws give-out. So we can see effect AFTER the big-bang , like background radiation and the expansion of the universe but we can feel, hear, see, detect nothing about the universe before the big bang.

Now 1 to me seems quite outrageously presumptious of Behe, but that isn't the issue here. The issue hear is 2 : if it was non-natural there can NEVER be ANY evidence for it. If we ever found any evidence it would prove it to be natural (at least in part) and thus refute Behe's position.

Answer 3

Certain features of living systems such as "irreducibly complex" molecular machines in cells, or the “information content of the DNA molecule” suggest real design by a purposeful or intelligent agent. To me, there is no scientific answer that adequately resolves these matters, including any of Darwin's theories (Darwin lacked a theory of the origin and transmission of new heritable variation).

Despite what I or anyone else has to say, I think we need to each determine what makes sense to us. I agree with many aspects of evolution, but I also believe in God. They can coincide and work together.

Answer 4

There is no evidence to support Intelligent Design. None.

Answer 5

Depends on who you ask. People that believe in that sort of thing have a long list of things they call evidence. Problem is, the items on the list don't hold under close scientific scrutinty.

Intelligent Design, despite what others may say, is more of a philosophy than a science. In otherwords, it fails to be scientific because it fails the rigors of scientific examination.

Answer 6

There isn't any. Their entire theory is 'I can't think of how that happened, therefore no one else can either, therefore it must have been god'. That's not a theory. It doesn't explain anything or predict anything. Evolution can do both.

The only 'evidence' they could come up with was irreducible complexity, and they were completely owned by the science community on that one, as was shown at the Dover trial two years ago.

EDIT: OK, I just took a look at the website cited by the person above. Basically, Ross is saying that astronomy is right, and then saying 'so that proves god' or 'and that means the bible was right'. Which, of course, is completely wrong.

Answer 7

What evidence is there to support intelligent design?

A number of academics support the intelligent design argument, maintaining that it is soundly supported by scientific disciplines. They argue that intelligent design provides empirical proof for the existence of a super-intelligent being, and that this proof is freely detectable in nature itself.

However it is very difficult to find definitive evidence in support of the concept, since it has no theoretical background, and the movement is fuelled more by belief than by experimentally derived proof.

Answer 8

It is not a theory in the scientific sense. As far as I can tell it is just a word game that goes along the lines of, "it is not possible to have a creation without a creator". While this is linguistically true, it says more about the ontogeny of words than it does about cosmology.

Answer 9

We have all agreed on how to spell "Intelligent Design Theory." What else do you need?

Answer 10

I've done some research on this matter. I've checked websites that promote ID, I have read many articles that support ID, and I have seen many claims of proof of ID. So far, all I have come across are lies and half truths. Twisted distortions of facts are common. A complete lack of scientific understanding and methods permeates all of them.

All this tells me there is no such thing as ID.

Atheism. You know it makes sense.

Answer 11

None. They make leaps of "faith" to cover the massive jump one would have to make to deduce an "intelligent" designer. Faith is belief without any evidence. Evidence for this faith theory is contradictive.


They mostly use appeals to ignorance as seen in the bad watch analogy. We know how watches are made, we know who designed them, we know their function. They have no evidence--only irrational thinking and ignorance.