Is intelligent design just a "dumb" version of evolution?

Answer 1

Intellegent design is a final attempt to incorporate science with christianity. The theory is that a watch doesn't appear from under a rock, it is made by man, so therefore, everything must have a creator.....Except caves they were dug out by giant earthworms that used to control the earth.

Answer 2

One of the main question still being debated today is what started life, causing the first organic material to form, and what (if anything) guides it.

There are been many theories of the centuries. The ancient Greeks believed that animals evolved, but that it was caused by their lifestyle. If the animal strained his neck every day to reach food, its children would be born with longer necks (such as the giraffe). So animals improve themselves by their own efforts.

Darwin purposed a different method. That changes happen all the time in a specie, but that those who benefit from the change survive. Those who change in ways that harm them do not survive. The results will an illusions that evolution was making animals "improve". Actually the environment was just killing off the ones who "deproved" (if there is such a word).

Another current theory is that evolution is caused by changes in the sun. As solar flares increase, they produce radiation (and global warming) which causes mutation and evolution. When the sun calm for a time, the process stops you animals remain the same for an "age". Then the sun flares and it all starts again.

Intelligent Design proposes that there is a force which guides evolution. That God started the whole process, and has adbanced it to where an intelligent creature (man) has appeared. He is unique that he is the only animal we know able to make moral choices and believe in God.

If there is a God, then ID is the only logical answer. It is no more "dumb" then questioning the sun affects on evolution just because some people have build a religion around it at times in history.

Answer 3

Intelligent design is a fundamentalist christian belief. There is no science behind it and there is certainly no intelligence there either.

Evolution is an observed fact. Any time an individual is born, its genes add to the population's collective genome. any time an individual dies, the genome is changed also. This is evolution! The change in a population's collective genome with respect to time.

Evolutionary theory correctly explains how this natural phenomenon diversified life on earth.

Don't get hung up on the word theory. In English a theory is simply little more than a guess that may or may not fit the facts. In science, a theory is the intellectual framework which explains a natural phenomenon. Theories in science are based on evidence, and are held tentatively, pending new evidence which may add to or refute the theory. This is how science works. It is not difficult to understand.

Edit to Derek B. Below.

T Rex bones were not found with living red blood cells nor with soft tissue. The substance inside was treated chemically to remove the mineralization. Only then was it soft enough to be examined. It was not tissue, and it was certainly not alive. Lead researcher Mary Higby Schweitzer of North Carolina State University, who incidentally, is a devout Christian, has claimed that she is dismayed by creationists who are misquoting her work and making false claims based on that.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7285683

Answer 4

So many people these days are confusing biblical creationism with intelligent design. "Intelligent Design is the study of patterns in nature that are best explained as the result of intelligence" (Dr. William Dembski). That's it; it says nothing of who the creator is and how he/she/it/they did it. Intelligent Design encompasses every "creation" story, even aliens seeding life on this planet. Theistic evolution is under that umbrella as well. Biblical creationism, on the other hand, is much more difficult to line up with Darwin, and requires some mental gymnastics.

Answer 5

No. It's the latest cop out by Fundies who have no choice but to admit that "creationism" is no longer palatable to anyone with even half a brain. So they have coined this term "intelligent design", which doesn't really mean anything, to try to stop the erosion of their empty version of the beginnings of life. It won't work any better than any of the other "explanations" they have conjured up out of thin air.

Answer 6

"Intelligent Design is the concept that some things—especially some life forms or parts of life forms—must have been assembled (at least for the first time) by the direct action of a non-natural agent. Proponents of Intelligent Design argue that there is empirical evidence that the universe's system of natural capabilities for forming things is inadequate for assembling certain information-rich biological structures. And if the system of natural capabilities is inadequate, then these biological structures must have been assembled by the action of some non-natural agent, usually taken to be divine."

It's more like "creation science" than evolution.

Answer 7

It's not any version of evolution. It's an alternative to evolution. While evolution is grounded in science, ID is grounded in religious belief. ID is creationism. The fight you see today is exactly the same type of fight you would have seen when the heliocentric view of the solar system conflicted with the doctrines of the church.

Answer 8

No.Actually it's turning out to be pretty "intelligent".Laboratories and well to do colleges are not the only establishments with very intelligent people.Some of them were even atheists at one time.
Have you ever questioned evolution?I've heard horror stories of teachers going completely off the deep end if they are challenged.Why is that?If evolution is true,why do they have to proselytize?Doesn't sound like academic equality to me.How can a student better his understanding without challenging his own thinking,and challenge his or her teacher?Is it because of intimidation that students do not do this?Eugenie Scott said it best,and she's an ardent atheist "if students heard the criticism towards evolution,they probably wouldn't believe it".What about the link below?If T Rex was supposed to be extinct 65 million years ago,why are there living red blood cells in their supposed millions of years old fossil?There not supposed to be there.You ought to read it.It's a pretty good article,and not derogating at all.

Answer 9

You could put it that way. For several reasons: in that it was never formally presented with supporting evidence in any scientific journal for peer review, in that it was presented in a book written for laymen, and in that it is totally unsupported by the facts.

But generally it's just another way creationists try to lie to other Christians.

Answer 10

Yes, but that's not to say any religion or theory of creation by scientists is any different. Intelligent Design is no more stupid than any other religion.