Is Intelligent Design right? Is God an Alien?
2007-09-17 04:59:25 · 17 answers · asked by Freq, Grandparent of Y!A 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, if God made this world, he would be an alien. Cause he wouldn't be from here. If hes not an alien, he would be from here, therefore he wouldn't be God. So the Christains worship an Alien then?
2007-09-17 05:11:42 · update #1
A character from religious fiction. No, unintelligent design is right :-)
Let's think about what intelligence means. I think it means the ability to come up with lots of different ideas, different possibilities, different solutions to problems, and figure out what works best. When we are newborn babies, our actions are random and unplanned - we gradually learn by trial and error how to move, how to get what we want, how to avoid getting hurt and so on. As adults, we have a lot of experience to draw on so we don't need to try everything out to know what will happen - the trial and error often goes on in our minds, but we still do it, even if a lot of it is automatic.
So, when someone designs something, they go through this trial and error process, some of it in practice and some just mentally, to decide what will work best for what they want to achieve - an attractive design, an effective product, a big profit, or whatever. The smartest people are the ones who have the most varied and original ideas, and are most successful at choosing the best ones.
Now, notice the similarity with evolution: Random genetic mutation provides the different possibilities, the different solutions, and unthinking natural selection determines what works and what does not - i.e. a mutation which allows the individual which carries it to be more reproductively successful will tend to be preserved and proliferate in the population, and one which is disadvantageous will tend to be lost, simply because the individual is never born, or dies before breeding, or breeds less successfully.
So in both cases - human design and evolution - the same factors of variation and selection are at work (the main difference being that humans can intentionally work towards an end result whereas evolution cannot). That's why both phenomena are capable of producing complexity, and that's also why people might feel that intelligence must be involved in both cases. I think what they are seeing is that both manufactured products and living organisms display design, but what they haven't appreciated is that one is intelligent design and the other is unintelligent design. The mistake is to assume that both require intelligence, when in fact they don't.
The common factor between what humans produce and what evolution produces is not intelligence, but design. That's why I think it's appropriate to call evolution 'unintelligent design'.
2007-09-17 05:04:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
No intelligent design is wrong and God isn't an alien. If he was an alien he would have to have made himself, which is a contradiction, as an alien would be part of the creation. Intelligent design is a really weak theory which you should check out on neutral websites and get informed
2007-09-17 05:06:01 · answer #2 · answered by bunter 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely!!! It was something more formal, yet I used to talk to Him whatever the reason and because I kept forward to my own ambition and desires, when He gave me avertisements I saved none and did my way going into more and more trubles! Into an end, within a deep depresion, He saved my life (!!!) the very second I left away of all my deep desires... There, empty heart, I was filled with God's Light and Peace and Love - a complete New LIFE, a new body, a New Vision over the past and the future :) :) :) Yes, He is my Saviour!!!
2016-05-17 05:14:34 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, God is not an alien - although the concept you use would logically mean God is an alien, but the concept is wrong.
God is omnipresent.
~ Eric Putkonen
2007-09-17 05:19:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No God is not a alien or a human. This is where human understanding limits us because we cannot ever fully understand how awesome or how wonderful God is. Humans are born and then they die that's because we are flesh so how can we possibly understand God, who was never born? We cant and that is where faith comes in. God is God and that's that.
2007-09-17 05:24:09 · answer #5 · answered by Hnmgirlygirl 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is whatever your "personal" belief is. Take away all religious organizations of what a "mass" claims God is. Take away any printed doctrine of what others claim God is. Search your heart and listen to it. Now what do you believe God is? You can only answer this question yourself...not with others opinions.
2007-09-17 05:16:17 · answer #6 · answered by Arachstorm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A spirit being. Who? depends on what your family, friends and enviornment may have influenced you to believe. Unless you have your own mind and seek the truth.
2007-09-17 05:08:43 · answer #7 · answered by Artscola 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. God is our father our creator,Ultimate ruler,ultimate judge,2.No God aint an alien.
2007-09-17 05:16:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think you read Angels and Demons... and no god is not an alien.
2007-09-17 05:05:34 · answer #9 · answered by Andrew E 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
an easy answer to plug the holes in our knowledge. the problem is that when new evidence arises, it's difficult to move the god concept aside.
2007-09-17 05:07:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋