The Greeks couldn't explain rain or thunder, so they attributed those events to Gods. Gods were crying or Gods were angry. The Europeans couldn't explain sickness, so they attributed sickness to the work of demons.
All these gaps in science were eventually filled out.
ID proponents believe that because current science cannot explain certain phenomena (atleast in their view) it must be God who is behind them.
2007-11-15 03:49:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I agree completely. Those who don't understand Science seek religion.
2007-11-15 04:03:00 · answer #1 · answered by mikegreenwich 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is design a valid argument? Well, we detect design all the time. If you find an arrowhead on a deserted island, you assume it was made by someone, even if you can’t see the designer. We can tell the difference between a message written in the sand and the results of the wind and waves on the sand. The carved heads of the presidents on Mt. Rushmore are clearly different from erosional features.
The thing is, reliable methods for detecting design exist and are employed in forensics, archeology, and data fraud analysis. These methods can easily be employed to detect design in biological systems.
When being interviewed by Tavis Smiley, Dr. Stephen Meyer said, “There are developments in some technical fields, complexity and information sciences, that actually enable us to distinguish the results of intelligence as a cause from natural processes. When we run those modes of analysis on the information in DNA, they kick out the answer, ‘Yeah, this was intelligently designed’ . . . There is actually a science of design detection and when you analyze life through the filters of that science, it shows that life was intelligently designed.”
Life is more than just physics and chemistry; life is built on information. Tightly coiled up inside the center of every cell, this information is contained in that molecule of heredity, called “DNA” which has a digital code inscribed alone its spine. And we know from experience: If you have a computer program, you need a computer programer. Any time we find information, whether it is in the form of a hieroglyphic inscription or a newspaper article, there was invariably an intelligent agent behind that information.
And for those who put so much faith in peer-review, check this out: http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2640&program=CSC%20-%20Scientific%20Research%20and%20Scholarship%20-%20Science
2007-11-15 04:46:49 · answer #2 · answered by Questioner 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Its just more superstitious magical thinking.
I am voting for the Spaghetti Monster...Those proponants are just creationists re fighting the Scopes Trial.
For them nothing has changed since 1925.
2007-11-15 04:09:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Traveling down that road of thought.. the explanation of God through science... will eventually lead you to Deism.
2007-11-15 03:58:20 · answer #4 · answered by pip 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The (at least in their view) is the most important insight. There really isn't a gap. They are trying to fabricate one for theological purposes.
God is dead.
2007-11-15 04:08:55 · answer #5 · answered by ideogenetic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
although we do come full circle...with all the magnificent scientific discoveries we cannot explain the causation of the big bang theory...as Einstein said "religion without science is blind and science without religion is dumb". Intellegent design simply advocates that our existance, infact the existance of existance is no coincidence.
2007-11-15 03:56:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Amen brother...
2007-11-15 03:53:55 · answer #7 · answered by bubba 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Intelligent design is not science, it is not religion either...
IT IS PHILOSOPHY
2007-11-15 03:55:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋