Don H
Joined: 05 Aug 2007
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 Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 11:51 pm Post subject: Re: In Search of the Designer of Intelligent Design |
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"Kazmer Ujvarosy" wrote in message$QZ1.496608@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> Take a look at this article, and have fun.
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> http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=18585
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# Intelligent Design refers back to origins, and Eternal Life refers forward
to destiny. Each poses as many problems as it solves. Did a monotheistic
God become bored, so decided to create the universe? And who created God?
These questions belong to religion or philosophy, and not science -
because they're not empirical and can't be tested.
Science is concerned with the world of "nature", as revealed by our five
senses (or extensions thereof), and empirical fact.
If any divine Intelligence reveals itself to us by intrusion into the
natural realm, then science can deal with it - otherwise it is all futile
speculation.
The traditional intrusions of God into our world were - revelation,
miracle, visitation, Act of God, prophesy, faith healing, spiritualism,
transubstantiation, answer-to-prayer, and virgin birth. But these have
fallen into disuse in a more sceptical (and scientific) age. All we are
left with is - Intelligent Design.
None of which is to discount that there is something "marvellous" about
the seeming design and pattern in the natural world. But "purpose"? No. A
chain of causal consequences can well explain the origin of a complex
protoplasmic biped, with an over-developed cerebral cortex, such as Homo
Sapiens.
Each human is a co-ordinated structure of mutually reliant specialised
cells - all from stem cells. Our brain is the overall central control
mechanism, but is it an evolutionary asset, or a defect? Time will tell.
Nature has only one test of a species - adapt, or perish. And we are not
the darlings of Nature, but merely one more species, with prospect of
extinction before us, either sooner, or later.
Will the Intelligent Designer still be around when we are gone? Or is
he/she/it merely yet another case of anthropomorphism?
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