All these posts and so little respect for others and their opinions.
I don't know where to begin to poke holes in most of the arguments made here.
"Evolution is the foundation of our current understanding of Biology. Everything from DNA to resistant viruses is predicted by evolution"
Did you know that as viruses "mutate" or "evolve", they are loosing part of their DNA? They don't become resistive because they effect a positive change, or an addition, to thwart antibodies. They become unrecognisable because they have lost part of their idenity. At least that is a scientific theory. Or don't ID people know how to formulate scientific theory? So if evolution "predicted" resistive viruses, wouldn't it then be considered the Deconstruction of Species?
How many of you here understand molecular biology well enough to debate someone else on the subject? I know of plenty of Christian scientists who can. Some of the most intelligent people of our time have believed that science is not harmed if an intelligent designer created the reality we know currently. And we still can't prove or disprove some of Einstin's theories.
The fact is that we will never understand how the earth was formed, or how humans came to be here. Why? Because none of us were there. That doesn't mean however that science is hericy. If it were not for scientific discovery we couldn't carry on this debate over the internet.
Liberally minded people like to think themselves more capable of independant thought because they don't subscribe to this Christian mumbo jumbo. While you yourselves have taken up evolution as religon, and will blindly believe anything someone else tells you. I say blindly because as I have already stated unless you can adequately debate molecular biology, or some of the other sciences, you can't really form a completely independant opinion. And each person who does posess the capacity for such scientifc deduction must make up his/her own mind on the subject. So where does that leave the rest of us? Look at the possibilities, judge for yourself which one of them suits you best, and enjoy life. As you go through life you may find more evidence that supports of refutes your belief, at that point you have to make a decision to stick with your current belief system or "Convert" to another. Notice that I didn't use convert in a Christian only context. But in the meantime, don't ridicule or try to make light of someone elses belief, they may know something you don't. Maybe you could ask them to share it with you so that you can add it to your list of ideas.
Science thrives on "Prove It". Well, Intelligent design is throwing down the gauntlet. Most of the worlds population believes in a "god" or "creator". Every civilization has it's own brand of "religon". Intelligent Design espouses none of these, it simply tries to prove it, or make scientists prove otherwise.
All Intelligent Design is trying to say is that humans may not be the most intelligent beings in the universe, and that, The, most intelligent being created life here and has left us to figure out why. Meanwhile, all we can do is quabble about what the meaning of Science is.
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I don't know where to begin to poke holes in most of the arguments made here.
"Evolution is the foundation of our current understanding of Biology. Everything from DNA to resistant viruses is predicted by evolution"
Did you know that as viruses "mutate" or "evolve", they are loosing part of their DNA? They don't become resistive because they effect a positive change, or an addition, to thwart antibodies. They become unrecognisable because they have lost part of their idenity. At least that is a scientific theory. Or don't ID people know how to formulate scientific theory? So if evolution "predicted" resistive viruses, wouldn't it then be considered the Deconstruction of Species?
How many of you here understand molecular biology well enough to debate someone else on the subject? I know of plenty of Christian scientists who can. Some of the most intelligent people of our time have believed that science is not harmed if an intelligent designer created the reality we know currently. And we still can't prove or disprove some of Einstin's theories.
The fact is that we will never understand how the earth was formed, or how humans came to be here. Why? Because none of us were there. That doesn't mean however that science is hericy. If it were not for scientific discovery we couldn't carry on this debate over the internet.
Liberally minded people like to think themselves more capable of independant thought because they don't subscribe to this Christian mumbo jumbo. While you yourselves have taken up evolution as religon, and will blindly believe anything someone else tells you. I say blindly because as I have already stated unless you can adequately debate molecular biology, or some of the other sciences, you can't really form a completely independant opinion. And each person who does posess the capacity for such scientifc deduction must make up his/her own mind on the subject. So where does that leave the rest of us? Look at the possibilities, judge for yourself which one of them suits you best, and enjoy life. As you go through life you may find more evidence that supports of refutes your belief, at that point you have to make a decision to stick with your current belief system or "Convert" to another. Notice that I didn't use convert in a Christian only context. But in the meantime, don't ridicule or try to make light of someone elses belief, they may know something you don't. Maybe you could ask them to share it with you so that you can add it to your list of ideas.
Science thrives on "Prove It". Well, Intelligent design is throwing down the gauntlet. Most of the worlds population believes in a "god" or "creator". Every civilization has it's own brand of "religon". Intelligent Design espouses none of these, it simply tries to prove it, or make scientists prove otherwise.
All Intelligent Design is trying to say is that humans may not be the most intelligent beings in the universe, and that, The, most intelligent being created life here and has left us to figure out why. Meanwhile, all we can do is quabble about what the meaning of Science is.