I had heard of this concept before but forgot what it referred to. The first step in finding out about something is to consult Wikipedia. People say Wiki isn't a reliable source and should not be referred to at all -but Wiki provides a brief, overall view of the topic and also shows its sources. It's just a god place to start if your learning about something you know little to nothing about. Further research to get a deeper understanding of the truth is always required.
According to Wiki:
Intelligent design (or ID) is the proposition that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection."[1][2] It is a form of creationism and a contemporary adaptation of the traditional teleological argument for the existence of God, presented by its advocates as "an evidence-based scientific theory about life's origins" rather than "a religious-based idea". It avoids specifying that the hypothesized intelligent designer is God.[3] Its leading proponents are associated with the Discovery Institute, a politically conservative think tank,[n 1][4]and believe the designer to be the Christian God.[n 2][n 3]
ID seeks to redefine science in a fundamental way that would invoke supernatural explanations, a viewpoint known as theistic science. It puts forward a number of arguments, the most prominent of which are irreducible complexity and specified complexity, in support of the existence of a designer.[5] The scientific community rejects the extension of science to include supernatural explanations in favor of continued acceptance of methodological naturalism,[n 4][n 5][6][7] and has rejected both irreducible complexity and specified complexity for a wide range of conceptual and factual flaws.[8][9][10][11][12][13]
See look at all those sources and links. And now I know what Intelligent Design is.
So back in the olden days people believed all of humanity came from Adam and Eve literally. Then fossils were found and this guy named Darwin came up with some pretty substantial theories. The concept of Evolution was then debated upon. Many religious groups were against the notion of evolution because they feel it insulted The Bible or contradicted it and things they believed to be indisputable fact. In the end Evolution won the argument -as it should have- because it had more facts and evidence. It was Truth.
Unfortunately what followed as the result of what happens when people are completely closed minded and make asses out of themselves. When it was then suggested that God was still evident in nature an historical science through supernatural things that id in fact occur but could not be explained -the notion was shot down. People accepted Evolution and they agreed science and religion shouldn't interfere with each others practices, but in science some things are too mysterious and unexplainable to say that it is all by chance or coincidence. These supernatural elements and scientific findings point to the probability that there had to be someone behind it all that put the system in place. They don't call it God right off the bat, they go with universe for reasons I suggested in an earlier post, but that's who they are referring to.
It's ironic that the people who fought against the closed-minded to get people to understand the Truth of evolutionary theory are now the close-minded being fought against to show that God can still be found in science. When science fails to acknolwedge the supernatural -especially when it is pretty obvious at this point with things like ghosts- science itself is then held back from the Truth. The Truth isn't bias, it isn't religious, it isn't scientific, and it doesn't take sides. To ignore the Truth because you cannot accept it is to choose to be ignorant.
An interesting spin on this, I must say. =)
ReplyDeleteScience and religion can certainly coexist. God is the Great Scientist. It was only since Darwin that it was popularly spoken that they cannot coexist. In the entire scheme of things, since Darwin only came around in the 19th Century, this period of time in which science and religion are seen as enemies is merely a speck in the millenias...and soon ending.
Although I'm not sure ID is totally true, it does show that we are beginning to return to a unity of science and spirituality. They can indeed coexist.
Anyway, I will let your mind (the paths of which I still cannot fathom) work with this idea until we watch Expelled. =)
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