A long vanity post is a very bad start. Good luck, though.
is a christian, i have no problem reconciling that god in his omnipotence, omnivoyance, omniscience, created in detail every single building block of matter and energy and set it forth using the big bang as the instrument of the dispersal of that matter and energy into the newly created medium of the ether/universe... i also have no problem in reconciling that evolution in it's infinite complexity is the manifestation of that creation...
And just in case...
IBTZ!
"So instead of seeing their world view exposed, naturalist have redoubled their assertion that they arbitrate what is or is not scientific. It's life or death to them."
In their minds, science is the only form of knowledge. And they have replaced the priests as the new clerisy. Began to do so about the time of Darwin. Professional scientistst were rare before that time, plentiful thereafter. Darwin himself was one of the last "amateurs," even though it was his life's work, he did not make a living from it. Evolution brought poiwer and prestige not only to th naturalist but to every other sort of scientist. They became the dominant force in the universities. War brought them into government. Industry has also thrived on their work. So Darwinism DOES have a powerful symbolic meaning to them.
Yes it is. Science considers only what can be physically observed and can be demonstrated to exist.
If you can't demonstrate that something exists, so that anyone can examine it, it's not a proper subject of science. It belongs in religion, phil, or psych.
To even call God "intelligent" is human nonsense.
It is reducing the perfect mystery to something both human and imperfect.
Intelligence requires a system of thought, one prone to error and uncertainty, contrary to His omniscience and omnipotence.
ID, in essence, is a statement that the universe represents God's brain, not the product of any such brain, but God's brain itself. You may as well worship Gaia, or for that matter, your favorite book of chemistry and physics equations.
The Theory of Evolution is a theory and as such may or may not be true. But, this theory says nothing about the start of life and does not contradict the concept of Intelligent Design.
The concept of Intelligent Design (first conceived by St Augustine) contains nothing that contradicts the Theory of Evolution.
The concepts of Creationism and Naturalism as regards this planet both have a time problem in my opinion, the Earth is too old for the former and too young for the latter.
Gonna bookmark this one to follow the bloody fray.
I like it. By my rights, you're welcome to post these ideas for discussion. I agree that there is at least as much proof of some degree of intelligent design as there is of spontaneous generation of life, and that neither case can be proven (without color of prior acceptance of a belief system which describes the events, of course), with information currently available. For example, how could it be possible to make a babe like Jessica Alba without divine intervention?
ID is creationism-by-deception and its scientific merits are none. Well, that was easy enough!
bump for a maybe reply point
And to think that I lurked for over a year before I even dared post and have never done a vanity.
Bookmark for later.
bttt
"You lost me at 'Hello', you lost me at 'hello'"....
Ping for completeness sake.
Only by leaving the armchair from time to time and going into the lab or getting out into the field is our thinking kept honest. The answers to the questions you're addressing are more likely to found in the journals of biochemistry or paelentology than they are in any ancient Greek text.
Philosophers have to have the facts, although it is possible for useful results to come from outright fantasy.