Another look at intelligent design
October 24, 2005
An article in Sci-Tech Today sheds some light on the argument for Intelligent Design as science.
Sci-Tech Today: Tension Mounts on Intelligent Design
Since teaching creationism is banned in secular schools as unconstitutional, my suspicious nature suggests that intelligent design may be primarily an attempted end run around the law. The article admits that both creationism and intelligent design argue for a supernatural origin of life. Here are a few quotes from the article.
Intelligent design theory proposes that the “irreducible” complexity of fundamental natural mechanisms cannot have emerged through accidental evolution. Like creationism, it argues for a supernatural origin of life and the universe. Unlike creationism, the teaching of which is banned as unconstitutional in the secular U.S. public school system, intelligent design claims a basis in science, not religion.
Among the hundreds of thousands of scientists at accredited U.S. colleges and universities, intelligent-design proponents are rare, and mostly concentrated at a few dozen Bible colleges, according to experts on American higher education.
No scientist has published an article in a peer-reviewed journal propounding the idea, according to Alan Leshner, head of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, based in Washington.
What you believe about the origin of life on the planet boils down to a matter of faith, or more to the point, the object of your faith. If you believe that earth and mankind were supernaturally created, the object of your faith is God the Creator. If you believe one of the scientific theories about how the earth and mankind came about, the objects of your faith are the scientists who proposed the theory.
The intelligent design vs. creationism battle is mostly an internal argument among Christians.
Dave, loving science but leery of some scientists.
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