An Intelligent Designer Speaks

I read a post this morning dealing with the topic of Intelligent Design, and I found it very hard not to comment. So hard in fact that I'm making a whole post out of it. I usually don't take part in debates of this nature. I don't generally consider it my place to to criticize someone else's beliefs. I may be highly critical of the practical application os some religions, particularly if they involve blowing up innocent bystanders, but if you want to believe in whatever version of god you choose, so be it. But this I could not let pass without comment.

“Unlike creationists, design proponents accept many of the conclusions of modern science. They agree with cosmologists that the age of the universe is 13.6 billion years, not fewer than 10,000 years, as a literal reading of the Bible would suggest. They accept that mutation and natural selection, the central mechanisms of evolution, have acted on the natural world in small ways, for example, leading to the decay of eyes in certain salamanders that live underground.”

So basically, Intelligent Design holds that everything science says about the origins of the universe and the evolution of species is right because that's how god designed it. This seems to be a fairly creative interpretation of the Bible's creation myth. I guess the Bible, like the Constitution, is a “Living Document.” It doesn't mean what it says, it means whatever we need to mean at the moment.

If you view this debate as a contest between reason and faith, it would seem that those on the side of faith have conceded a major defeat and are doing their best to spin it into something that doesn't render them totally irrelevant. To put into a cliche, “if you can't beat them, join them.”

Of course the goal behind all of this, is to get some form of creationism into school curricula - even if means saying that god invented Dawrinism.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 02:44 PM | No Comments | Add Comment