Did Christians just throw that word in there to make their theory sound scientific?
2007-04-26 00:15:46 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Abel:
I admit Einstein was spiritual, but he wasn't one of your own. He believed in a higher power, not a specifically defined God as Christians, Jews, Muslims and etc would claim.
Just because Einstein may have been a spiritual person, it does not prove the story of ambiogenesis as described in any holy text.
2007-04-26 00:32:35 · update #1
It isn't. It's one of the most retarded pseudo-scientific theories ever.
Scientific investigation is not about justifying a particular belief or seeking to achieve a particular outcome. It's about how things work or how they came to be. ID makes the cardinal error of assuming a hypothesis is true and then working backwards instead of looking at something and saying "I wonder how that happened? Let's look at the evidence without prejudice or bias".
Beth:
You mean crashing into each other like the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs?
Uh huh.
2007-04-26 00:18:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
You think, we just made it up? Read what Einstein, the greatest mind the world has ever known, says about an Intelligent Designer.
100 years ago this year, Albert Einstein published three papers that rocked the world. These papers proved the existence of the atom, introduced the theory of relativity, and described quantum mechanics.
Pretty good debut for a 26-year-old scientist, huh?
His equations for relativity indicated that the universe was expanding. This bothered him, because if it was expanding, it must have had a beginning and a beginner. Since neither of these appealed to him, Einstein introduced a 'fudge factor' that ensured a 'steady state' universe, one that had no beginning or end.
But in 1929, Edwin Hubble showed that the furthest galaxies were fleeing away from each other, just as the Big Bang model predicted. So in 1931, Einstein embraced what would later be known as the Big Bang theory, saying, "This is the most beautiful and satisfactory explanation of creation to which I have ever listened." He referred to the 'fudge factor' to achieve a steady-state universe as the biggest blunder of his career.
Einstein's theories have been thoroughly proved and verified by experiments and measurements, but there's an even more important implication of Einstein's discovery. Not only does the universe have a beginning, but also time itself, our own dimension of cause and effect, began with the Big Bang.
That's right -- time itself does not exist before then. The very line of time begins with that creation event. Matter, energy, time and space were created in an instant by intelligence outside of space and time.
About this intelligence, Albert Einstein wrote in his book "The World As I See It" that the harmony of natural law "Reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."
He went on to write, "Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe--a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble."
Pretty significant statement, wouldn't you say?
Peace and every blessing!
2007-04-26 00:27:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
No.
"Intelligent design" is somewhat reduntant, but the phrase is used because modern forms of the teleological argument refer to an "intelligent designer" rather than a "God".
Some people, for various reasons, might argue that is a bit of wordplay, to make the idea of "God" a bit more precise (and therefore, "scientific sounding"). However,an "intelligent designer" is referred to in order to skirt Voltaire's objections to the teleological argument, not to impress the stupid.
2007-04-26 00:42:29 · answer #3 · answered by csappenf 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not... I've said it before, and I'll say it again. It's a farce. It's nothing more than, again, religion masquerading as a pseudoscience.
Furthermore, the name pretty much tears apart any argument an ID advocate could have... nature has thousands of examples of UNintelligent design, like vestigal organs, disease, bad mutations, etc.
2007-04-26 00:47:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's an oxymoron-there's nothing scientific or intelligent, about intelligent design. It's just warmed over religious propoganda.
2007-04-26 00:43:01 · answer #5 · answered by Julia Sugarbaker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Perfect design!" should describe it more. God did not design the universe or the world for that matter with man`s intelligence. Otherwise everything would be falling a part and crashing into each other!
2007-04-26 00:21:23 · answer #6 · answered by Smiley 6 · 1⤊ 5⤋
it is not it is a way the christians tried to put god into science and failed and made the usa look like fools
2007-04-26 00:19:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Exactly. "We don't know much so we're going to guess a god did it" theory just doesn't have the same punch.
2007-04-26 00:18:03 · answer #8 · answered by nondescript 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Why do guys like you SH1T on religion, over man's failings. Thinking they know everything better?
Isn't that exaclty what you do?
2007-04-26 00:42:48 · answer #9 · answered by Crackhead 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋