I dislike the term intelligent design and think its a cop out phrase (like acceptible losses and collateral damage) to avoid saying what is true...in this case God (I will accept a Higher Power reluctantly) did it.
But...what is your definition of intelligent design. I see it tossed around here like a salad and somehow equated with literal creationism...and that could not be farther from the truth.
No games please, I have not had enough caffeine this morning yet and there is a pesky mosquito in my office.
2007-05-12 03:12:20 · 8 answers · asked by Dust in the Wind 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think its moronic too...but check your sources, Christians did not invent this one, lol...or the other two I mentioned, they were all "created" by the same source.
2007-05-12 03:25:34 · update #1
People "Intelligent Design" backs a religious concept yes, but it is far from religious in intent. By not accepting this, you allow yourselves to continue in the delusion of division of church and state.
It is "designed" to make evolution more palitable for Christians, to shut up the strict fundamentalists who insist that the version of the beginning in Genesis is literally as it happened against all evidence to the contrary. Likewise it is designed to take the sting out of creationism being taught in schools for those who believe that it should not be.
Intelligent Design = God Did It
2007-05-12 04:26:04 · update #2
you won't get many answers,I tried. There is no single,unified theory of Intelligent design. It runs the gamut from creationism,to god nudged things along,to all of evolution is how god did it UNTIL it came to man from monkeys,then god made man separate. That's what I don't get. They want it in schools,yet there is no actual theory,no study plan...nothing,But it MUST be taught. Amazing
2007-05-12 03:21:03 · answer #1 · answered by nobodinoze 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I do believe in God, and some times the phrase "Intelligent design" confuses me.
I think that one example could be the humming bird, in that how (by chance in natural selection) have learned that it could pound its beak against a tree to get bugs, and developed a spongy material to help protect its brain, and got a tongue that is long enough to reach deep into the bugs tunnels, and left behind a smell that attracted the bugs back, and had a tongue that was sticky to catch the bugs, and its tongue is so long that it could not close its beak unless it had a the ability to put it up its nasal cavity and wrap it over the top of its brain?
In a weekly magazine (I think News Week) some one was starting a think tank, and one of the issues they were going to tackle is why does everything work according to mathematics? I can not see how they can not, but apparently deep thinkers have often wondered why do they?
2007-05-12 10:46:07 · answer #2 · answered by tim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
besides it not being close to being in any form a science, Intelligent Design seems to be a Theistic way to put a feet into science today. It's a way to try to prove God through looking at physicals, trying to observe things that are unable to occur in nature when in fact nature is science. I'm not really into intelligent design because I feel it is a demeaning factor for science. When people ask me to prove God, then I ask, Do you care to believe? If they say no, I say ," Then theres no point in me trying to prove God is there." I believe that we Christians today try to blend and refit so that more people will like it, but in fact it is demeaning ourselves as Christians.
I say, Stick to what God started with. There was God. There was Jesus. God made me and everybody else. I don't need to prove it, my faith stands as more than enough.
2007-05-12 19:36:17 · answer #3 · answered by Panda WafflesZilla 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The crucial difference between any kind of creationism and evolution is intention. Creationism and/or ID necessitates an intention, a direction, an end product which the process is moving towards, whereas in the real world evolution is undirected.
2007-05-12 10:17:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Intelligent Design is for people who want to designate themselves God. They just cannot believe in anything greater than themselves.
There may have been a 'big bang' and I can accept that but God created the 'big bang'. The beauty of human life, of animal life, of sun, clouds, rain, snow, sunshine, changing seasons, beautiful flowers, trees, grass, weeds, helpful insects, of good, kind, compassionate people, nutrition in the soil, healty foods grown from the ground.
If there is 'intelligence design' God is the Intelligent Designer and make no mistake, He is still in control and He can still destroy what He created.
We do not need Al Gore to play God. He will just screw things up further.
2007-05-12 10:22:07 · answer #5 · answered by Heidi 4 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
From what I understand
Stuff is really really complicated and could therefore only have been designed.....
It is a cop out argument because you're then left with - if everything complicated *has* to be designed who designed the designer?
(Heidi sweetie intelligent design is a religious concept)
2007-05-12 10:31:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Intelligent Design: The most moronic thing ever invented by Christians. Ever.
2007-05-12 10:15:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
A moronic idea by goofball christians who aren't content believing in god, but want to pretend that they have scientific proof of god, based on the most infantile concept of science ever devised.
2007-05-12 10:27:59 · answer #8 · answered by Fred 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋