Intelligent Design?
What is all this hubbub about Intelligent Design?
Either you believe that God designed the universe or you don't. Well, it really is a lot more complicated than that. I am having a major battle in my mind about this. I, from the bottom of my heart believe in a higher power. I feel God like I feel happiness, sadness or love. Those things are real to me, so God is real to me.
On the other hand, I am a firm subscriber to the scientific method. As imperfect as it is, it is the best tool we have for understanding the universe and progressing human achievement for the betterment of mankind.
So, how does one rectify these seemingly opposing views. This goes back to my search for real magic. I am hoping science will prove the existence of God just by doing their thing. I am thinking that this will never happen and I will be doomed to reading endless arguments back and forth.
The scientists do have an advantage. They are not trying to do anything but understand the universe while the ID folks have specific idea they have to prove.
There is one fact that no one can deny; The Universe Created Us.
Either you believe that God designed the universe or you don't. Well, it really is a lot more complicated than that. I am having a major battle in my mind about this. I, from the bottom of my heart believe in a higher power. I feel God like I feel happiness, sadness or love. Those things are real to me, so God is real to me.
On the other hand, I am a firm subscriber to the scientific method. As imperfect as it is, it is the best tool we have for understanding the universe and progressing human achievement for the betterment of mankind.
So, how does one rectify these seemingly opposing views. This goes back to my search for real magic. I am hoping science will prove the existence of God just by doing their thing. I am thinking that this will never happen and I will be doomed to reading endless arguments back and forth.
The scientists do have an advantage. They are not trying to do anything but understand the universe while the ID folks have specific idea they have to prove.
There is one fact that no one can deny; The Universe Created Us.
posted by Reality Check at 3:58 PM
2 Comments:
Good post. I've included an excerpt in a discussion of the issue on my blog.
Why need we cap the complexity, intricacy and wonder of the universe with a short simple title and concept - be it god or an intelligent designer? Can not the great beyond be left as an unconquerable frontier, forever to be expanded, forever to be explored? Why also is god or intelligent design reffering to a person, controlling and directing - can not it be the process, the mechanisms, each responsible for another, infinitely going on... never to end, maybe never to be grasped fully but always driving the hunger to understand, each new discovery feeding the hunger for a deeper understanding?
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