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Edited on Sun Dec-26-04 12:29 AM by Rabrrrrrr
as in: intelligent design. But capitalizing it - Intelligent Design - means one is talking about the fundy Christian "science" that is just Creationism in a different cloak. It's still completely wrong, both scientifically and theologically.
But the idae of perhaps intelligent design? I can't say there isn't. I'm a firm evolutionist, and a Christian, who believes God made everything and let it unfold. Which in a way is intelligent design - but I wouldn't call it that, just because if one is speaking, you can't speak in terms of lowercase letters, and so people won't know if I'm making a scientific claim that mixes in some belief (intelligent design) or if I'm attempting to force scientific findings to fit a rather intellectually bankrupt bit of theological opinion. Also, the term "intelligent design", and I speak only theologically know, makes it seem that God works in some way on an intellectual level like ours - that God's intelligence is something we can understand, that makes sense, etc. Perhaps "Unintelligable design" would be a better term. Or "unfathomable design". But those are still weak.
The theology must ALWAYS leave room for the science, and the theology must ALWAYS bend to the truth of science; science should never, ever, ever be forced into fitting a theological framework. Ever. And Intelligent Design does exactly that.
I will also disagree on two other things:
1) Evolution does not answer how things were created - it answers how creation has evolved.
2) And religion doesn't answer WHY things were created - but it does explore the question. Once religion answers that question, then it is no longer a viable religion - it is a form of fundamentalism. Religion is also the process of trying to come up with an answer of "Given that we have all this matter around us and lives to lead, how do we respond to it all?"
But on the other hand, both of us have given answers that are only a few sentences long, and so they both suffer greatly for want of more development and nuance.
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