Hi All, Normally I refrain from contributing to this type of thread; but I am compelled to ask where is there any evidence for Intelligent Design, in some benign sense?
We, the Lords of Creation, have backs that are often unsuited for bipedalism, immune systems that kill or cripple us with their defensive response, and -- above all -- a moral sense that glorifies murder in the name of whatever. This last defect may result in our extinction after a relatively short run as a species. If this is not the result of random blunders, then I would fear we are the product of Malevolent Design. The evidence for Malevolent Design is compelling; and it may support the concept of ID if an evil intelligence rules the universe. Are we the play things of a Monster that likes making butterflies so that It can tear their wings off? Jack Smith thomas malloy wrote: > > Jeff Kooistra wrote: > > And Jed Rothwell replied; > > > >What the slurrers against ID fail to admit is the possibility of > > >extra-terrestrial intervention just like a civilisation leaves industrial > > >waste. To rule it out would be unscientific. > > > >He's absolutely right. I pointed this out in a column once--God is not a > >requirement for ID to be under consideration. > > >Wrong, wrong WRONG. I find this argument very annoying, as I have said > >before. It solves nothing. It just pushes the problem off to another > >planet. Somewhere, sometime intelligent life must have evolved entirely by > >natural forces. Since it happened somewhere there is no reason to think it > >did not happen again on earth. > > I've got to admit that your's in an excellent argument Jed. My only > response is that G-d is an energy based phenomena, and the Earth is > physical.
