Volumes can be written about INTELLIGENT DESIGN but I am going to concentrate simply on the word, INTELLIGENT. If mankind (a big if) is created in God's image, then God is a hell of a designer, a design that is more of a laugh than anything else. Let's consider this design as a total failure first of all. No intelligent designer would design humans laden with parts, a multiplicity of parts that are subject to pain and failure.
Why not design eyes that work so that over 50% of the population don't need eyeglasses. Or design a heart that works so that heart disease is not the number one killer in the United States.
Why not design a digestive system that works so that people are not bothered by diarrhea, or constipation? Or a brain that functions and does not surrender to addictions, to alcohol, nicotine, heroin, cocaine, gambling and the list is endless. Why the common cold, cancer, chronic pain, back trouble? Why thousands of brain cells that can go awry and lead to Alzheimer's disease?
So who were these people that re-introduced the term, INTELLIGENT DESIGN in our modern era? Oh so clever, a design that was hatched by the true believers to challenge true science and replace it with pseudo science celebrating the phrase as one that would: Mask it's real aim of divorcing it from religion and creationism and building the two words into a more acceptable way, one that would parade as simply a forward thrust into the realm of architectural design that happened to be lauding a designer but they are not telling who it is at the moment.
Meantime, back at the theological ranch, they would circumvent the little thing known as SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE, and sneak into the halls of learning as the legitimate
science challenging the upstart Darwin and his theory of evolution. Alright, alright they finally conceded, we'll have both their, ahem, science and our true science side by side -- while somehow allowing 75% devoted to our side and the rest for evolution.
Your writer, an evolutionary oldster, who managed to evolve into the over-ripe age of 87 all the while relying on reason rather than faith to reach conclusions. Now a word to the faithful; Please don't tell me that "god works in mysterious ways, that she, he it, cannot be questioned, that god loves us all, one in all equally and that all calamitous events were not god's doing but were brought about by sinners. Holocaust sinners? Haitian sinners? The 50 million dead sinners of world war two, sinners?
I welcome all comments, favorable of unfavorable. See you if I see you. The thing is I'm blind in one eye and the other makes a show of seeing but kinda falls short.
Why not design eyes that work so that over 50% of the population don't need eyeglasses. Or design a heart that works so that heart disease is not the number one killer in the United States.
Why not design a digestive system that works so that people are not bothered by diarrhea, or constipation? Or a brain that functions and does not surrender to addictions, to alcohol, nicotine, heroin, cocaine, gambling and the list is endless. Why the common cold, cancer, chronic pain, back trouble? Why thousands of brain cells that can go awry and lead to Alzheimer's disease?
So who were these people that re-introduced the term, INTELLIGENT DESIGN in our modern era? Oh so clever, a design that was hatched by the true believers to challenge true science and replace it with pseudo science celebrating the phrase as one that would: Mask it's real aim of divorcing it from religion and creationism and building the two words into a more acceptable way, one that would parade as simply a forward thrust into the realm of architectural design that happened to be lauding a designer but they are not telling who it is at the moment.
Meantime, back at the theological ranch, they would circumvent the little thing known as SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE, and sneak into the halls of learning as the legitimate
science challenging the upstart Darwin and his theory of evolution. Alright, alright they finally conceded, we'll have both their, ahem, science and our true science side by side -- while somehow allowing 75% devoted to our side and the rest for evolution.
Your writer, an evolutionary oldster, who managed to evolve into the over-ripe age of 87 all the while relying on reason rather than faith to reach conclusions. Now a word to the faithful; Please don't tell me that "god works in mysterious ways, that she, he it, cannot be questioned, that god loves us all, one in all equally and that all calamitous events were not god's doing but were brought about by sinners. Holocaust sinners? Haitian sinners? The 50 million dead sinners of world war two, sinners?
I welcome all comments, favorable of unfavorable. See you if I see you. The thing is I'm blind in one eye and the other makes a show of seeing but kinda falls short.
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