Intelligent Design is not based upon Creationism

This week I have been looking through several blogs regarding intelligent design, creation and evolution. I am going to create a longer blog post describing the media's false assumptions regarding creation. One of the biggest arrogant voices spewing false information is PZ Myers. People like Myers first create a straw man argument relating to the Intelligent Design Movement. Intelligent design is not about biblical creation necessarily. Many of the people who write and speak for intelligent design are not conservative Bible Christians. Some are agnostic or secular Jews.

So one of the biggest myths promoted is that intelligent design equates Bible literalist creation. This is a false assumption.

Darwin Endorsed Intelligent Design At One Time

Charles Darwin is credited for making evolution credible without the need of a creator God. There is a myth that Darwin repented of his views of God and evolution on his deathbed, but he died a self-proclaimed agnostic. Sadly Darwin admitted in his letters of a conviction of God’s existence in creation. From the book published by his son Francis Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, he stated,

"Formerly I was led by feelings […] to the firm conviction of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul. […] I will remember my conviction that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body. But now the grandest scenes would not cause any such convictions and feelings to rise in my mind.”

Charles Darwin admitted that he held a view of an intelligent designer. By only considering natural options for life's origins he closed himself off to the notion of special creation. This inward compass Darwin had at one time focused his attention to the greatness of God. Scientific studies document observations at times through site, touch, hearing, and taste. Darwin admitted that there was an inward pull recognizing God.

Paul spoke in Romans about the existence of God being known to all. "For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools." Romans 1:19-22. NKJV.

Clay Farris Naff: Rocks in our Heads

Intelligent Design is not Intelligent Preservation

 A response to Clay Farris Naff: Rocks in our Heads

It is amazing the number of people who write articles about intelligent design without a clue on what it teaches. Take for example Clay Farris Naff: Rocks in our Heads in the Huffington Post who posted a photo of stars and a asteroid.

Did God make the little red dot in this picture? If you buy intelligent design -- the idea the God, oops, sorry, an intelligent designer to be named at a later date, created everything in the universe with a plan for human life in mind -- well, you'd have to say yes.

Scientists that work in conjunction with the Discovery Group do not focus on intelligent preservation but intelligent design. Creationist on the other hand like those scientist working with the Institute of Creation Research, ICR, have an answer to the asteroid question.

But that little red dot cries out for explanation. It is an asteroid whose orbit more or less intersects with ours, one of countless near-earth objects that potentially threaten civilization. A newly launched satellite called WISE discovered it earlier this month.

I do not have the habit of listening to asteroids as they pass by Earth. It goes without saying that their is obvious evidence of asteroids hitting the Earth and Moon. What does the existence of asteroid impacts have anything to so with intelligent design? It does not. Blogs like this Huffington Post article create a straw man argument for dismissing the study of intelligent design. Intelligent design does not suggest anything regarding preservation of life, just the existence.

Then ask yourself, why have we been so lucky? This is one of those places where science and religion intersect. You might be tempted to picture the hand of God swatting away killer asteroids to keep his favorite creatures safe. But why, we have to ask, would God need to do that? If he custom-built the universe, why didn't he simply make a cleaner job of it?

Most Scientists who advocate either intelligent design or evolution do not ask the question of Why? Religion takes information from scientists and then asks the question why. The Christian religion which is based on the Bible has an answer for why is there chaos. Sin. When sin entered the universe then humanity began to suffer. In Christian theology not only is their a need for humanity to be redeemed, but the universe as well.

For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. (Rom 8:20-22) NIV

When Adam and Eve sinned a chaos entered the world. They did not have the same physical benefits of longevity of life. Conservative theology teaches that humanity would experience suffering because of this sin. The Bible is primarly a book about redemption. Not only do humans need to be redeemed, there is scripture that tells of the universe needing to be changed.

The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. (2Pe 3:9-10) NKJV

While their are certainly qualities of life that preserve life, it does not meet the original plan of God. Storms, earthquakes and even asteroid impacts are evidence that the universe is chaotic. While questions remain of why their are tragic losses of human lives due to nature, the Bible is clear that this world needs to be changed.

Have it your way ... or God's way

Norman Rockwell's Creation of The Ideal

The Bible indicates that we are created in the image of God. If this is true then we will have similar aspects on a different level. For example in the Bible we read that humans are created disticntly from the animals and plants. Humans were given the abilty to think and express that thinking.

North America has Norman Rockwell recreated it, is only an ideal of the past. Family togetherness is realized by social scientists today as ideal. Then why is their not a concerted effort to reach back to this ideal? Why is the search for life on Mars a higher priority than working on family relationships?

When evolution teachings are promoted than morals are compromised eventually. Evolution teaches a selfish philosophy of look at the world for your limited time only.

Burger King's  Have it Your Way

Evolution philosophy erodes God's plan for an ideal life. Culture is just an evolved entity. The slogan for Burger King is Have It Your Way. Beer Commericals speak of the ideal life of the individual and not of family relationships. Political focus is on the almighty dollar. With all of this said...The Bible gives guidance for an ideal family life. But this is ignored.

When those who promote the idea of Intelligent Design or Biblical creation it is because of faith in God's word and present reality. Like produces like. An orange tree produces oranges for other orange trees to grow. Evolution philosophy ignores this common reality and also the reality of moral values declining. If we are to see true success in North America it is not in promoting evolution but the reality of the world around us. This reality involves morals and God's word has answers for ailing morals.

The Special Creation of Protozoans

Yet Another Insignificant Attack on Intelligent Design. From:
Even a Protozoan does not believe in intelligent design | Science news | TechEye - All the technology news unfit for print

According to the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, which we get for the Spot the Amoeba competition, protozoans do not need a creator to have existed.

Intelligent Design theorists claim that the Cambrian explosion 545 million years ago cannot be explained by Darwinian evolution – because it happened too fast.

Is their not something obnoxious with this statement? How could empirical science suggest protozoa evolved? It cannot. Not every scientist who embraces ID are against evolution totally. But for the sake of the argument lets maintain the writer is not giving a non-truth.

Another ID argument that Protozoans disprove is that no one has ever seen the development of a new species.

However Farmer and Habura have seen a case where amoebae became symbiotically dependent upon infecting bacteria. If the symbotically dependent amoebae subsequently tried to interbreed with the parent stock, the parent stock died of the bacterial infection. Thus the two became genetically isolated.

This is the same old argument for evolution that has been used over the decades. Those that disagree with evolution do not discount that genetic changes do take place. This is common Mendelian Genetics at work. The distinct genetic populations do not show an increase in genomic information, but a loss.

Lastly the ID argument that that the fossil record does not show transitional species do not apply to protozoans as there is a detailed fossil record of protists does exhibit just such intermediate forms.

Once again different species of protozoa in a fossil does not declare evolution any more than fossils of dog and a horse in the same rock layer.

Looks like a protozoa can make a monkey out of intelligent design theory.

ummmm I don't think so.

This is a test.

No Intelligence Allowed is now available on DVD in the United Kingdom

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed  












 
now available on DVD in the United Kingdom in a newly expanded edition with 44 minutes of never-before-seen interviews.

Interest in intelligent design is growing in Britain. Earlier this month, Stephen Meyer, who appears in Expelled, defended both the film and ID in a debate with atheist Peter Atkins, which you can listen to here.

The "Bad Boy UK Version" promises to be a hit in a market that has been dominated by the likes of Richard Dawkins, whose appearance in the film and startling admission that intelligent design exists — coming from aliens, of course — might raise a few eyebrows in his native land.

What's the old saying about prophets and honor in their homeland?

 From Discovery Institute.
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2010/01/expelled_now_available_in_the.html