Do you believe the suits and the Republicans?
2007-06-20 11:24:54 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Intelligent design is, basically, a con game. It's an attempt by some conservative Christians to pretend that creationism is a science, rather than religion, to get round the USA's sensible constitutional law which prevents religion being taught in schools.
When some concerned parents took a school board in Pennsylvania to court because the school was teaching ID, the conservative Christian judge found that ID was religion, and had no science behind it.
From a scientific point of view, there is really nothing to say about Intelligent Design. Science requires a testable theory - ID offers none except to say "look at this, it's so complicated, it must have been designed". This is just the argument known as "God of the gaps" - if you can't work out how something happened, God must have done it. But the problem with that is that if you do discover how it happens, the "gap" for God becomes smaller.
The entire history of science has been about finding things that used to be attributed to God - for instance lightning, which we now know of course to be electrical. Every time we say "dunno, goddidit" we are preventing any further progress in science in that area.
The theory of evolution is an amazingly successful theory with unprecedented explanatory power. ID offers nothing.
2007-06-20 21:25:09 · answer #1 · answered by Daniel R 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Creationists (ID people are just creationists) rarely even win Republican primaries in school board elections when they are outed as creationist nutters.
To the person quoting allegedly Christian scientists: Have you noticed that you have to dig back before the 20th century to find them easily? That's because Darwin killed creationism.
2007-06-20 11:32:07 · answer #2 · answered by Minh 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
No.
They do not have a single valid argument.
And science is not a faith. No matter how much believers try to tell you it is.
2007-06-20 11:45:06 · answer #3 · answered by davidifyouknowme 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Intelligent input darling-qhy dont u have anuva beer?!! xx
2007-06-20 11:35:17 · answer #4 · answered by SUZANNE R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those guys (thankfully) have little chance of making it to the GOP.
2007-06-20 11:29:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe in the Big Bang...God said let it be and BANG it was. Plain and simple. It takes more blind faith to believe in a scientific THEORY (i.e. evolution), than to believe that God (an all-powerful being) created everything.
2007-06-20 11:32:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
ID is not science.
2007-06-20 11:30:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I believe God.
2007-06-20 11:28:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes a christian con to put god into science and it failed
2007-06-20 12:08:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe Jehovah God and his Son Jesus Christ.
The Bible is truth.
2007-06-20 11:31:14 · answer #10 · answered by Jason W 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋