2007-09-23 05:07:33 · 13 answers · asked by Diver Down 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In the last 30 years a number of prominent scientists have attempted to calculate the odds that a free-living, single-celled organism, such as a bacterium, might result by the chance combining of pre-existent building blocks. Harold Morowitz calculated the odds as one chance in 10100,000,000,000. Sir Fred Hoyle calculated the odds of only the proteins of an amoebae arising by chance as one chance in 1040,000.
...the odds calculated by Morowitz and Hoyle are staggering. The odds led Fred Hoyle to state that the probability of spontaneous generation 'is about the same as the probability that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard could assemble a Boeing 747 from the contents therein.' Mathematicians tell us that any event with an improbability greater than one chance in 1050 is in the realm of metaphysics -- i.e. a miracle.
2007-09-23 06:11:28 · update #1
Harold Marowitz, an atheist physicist, created mathematical models by imagining broths of living bacteria that were superheated until all the complex chemicals were broken down into basic building blocks. After cooling the mixtures, Marowitz used physics calculations to conclude that the odds of a single bacterium reassembling by chance is one in 10100,000,000,000. 2 Wow! How can I grasp such a large statistic?
Well, it's more likely that I would win the state lottery every week for a million years by purchasing just one ticket each week.
2007-09-23 06:13:42 · update #2
Regarding the origin of life, Francis Crick, winner of the Nobel Prize in biology for his work with the DNA molecule, stated in 1982:
An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going. 4
1 Mark Eastman, MD, Creation by Design, T.W.F.T. Publishers, 1996, 21-22.
2 Eastman and Missler, The Creator Beyond Time and Space, 76-77.
3 Robert Shapiro, Origins -- A Skeptic's Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth, 1986, 128.
4 Francis Crick, Life Itself -- Its Origin and Nature, Futura, 1982.
2007-09-23 06:16:07 · update #3
Perhaps not many at this point, but I notice that as more evidence becomes available, little by little some of them are starting to think outside the atheistic box. There is hope.
2007-09-23 05:17:34 · answer #1 · answered by Mutations Killed Darwin Fish 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's not a theory.. not even close. It's nothing more than a new name for Creationism, poorly disguised as science.
Excerpt from Wikipedia... In science, a theory is a mathematical or logical explanation, or a testable model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment or otherwise falsified through empirical observation.
ID is not a logical explanation, it is not capable of predicting future occurences, and it is not based on any observation.. rather it was a set of observations constructed to fit a foregone conclusion. It has been tested and falsified... it is not fact and it is not theory.. It is merely a tired old teleological argument, based on pseudoscience..
Therefore there is no "believing" in ID it's not even a theory... it's merely creationism disgused as science and it has failed miserably to stand up to any test or critical peer review. Evolution is a theory that has stood up to empirical observation and scientific testing.. thus it is ACCEPTED not believed in.
2007-09-23 12:22:48 · answer #2 · answered by Kelly + Eternal Universal Energy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so
Intelligent design suggests a designer which is normally by definition some kind of diety.
However atheists come in all kinds of flavours
2007-09-23 13:05:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they believed in Intelligent Design they wouldn't be an atheist now would they? Atheism is the absolute disbelief in God or any supreme being.
2007-09-23 12:19:37 · answer #4 · answered by Jack B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess there might be some atheist who could believe that aliens designed earth and created humans. But I don't know any.
2007-09-23 12:13:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Intelligent Design Pseudotheory implies there is some supernatural force.
2007-09-23 12:13:02 · answer #6 · answered by khard 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Intelligent design requires an intelligent designer.
2007-09-23 12:17:25 · answer #7 · answered by t_rex_is_mad 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe the universe is in a constant loop, itself. Infinite, much like one states God is. I see no reason why one can be infinite and the other not, so.. Everything just is
2007-09-23 12:16:52 · answer #8 · answered by Corvus 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Its practically the same thing as Creationism and you have to belive god did it. Atheists don't believe that. Most of us believe in evolution.
2007-09-23 12:13:56 · answer #9 · answered by Uliju 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not that I've ever heard.
After all, ID is nothing more than religious superstition masquerading badly as science.
Atheists know the difference when they see it.
2007-09-23 12:24:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋