Commentaries on Our World

The Intelligent Design Deception

Are we being lead down the garden path by the Biblical Literalist Christian Right?

I firmly believe that facts bare no resemblance to what these people spout to there churchs and the courts.Science only will tells us the how, not the why, not whether or not God is involved.

The why and who or what is the realm of Religions and Philosphy, where we don't need to be as strict as science.

Science for the most part proposes an hypothesis, observes the natural world, experiments where possible, test hypothesis against the data and forms a theory. Then the wholle process is reiterated until sufficient positibe results establish the theory as representative of the real world.

Religions, however, work from sacred texts and rvelation to certain elect officials as a basis of their understnding of the world. The texts, some ancient, use many literary techniques to teach and explain concepts sometimes foreign to the readers closer to the time of the writing. Thus many copying's were done in the days before the printing press. Copyings done by qualified priests and rabbi's who have had many tears preparations for their sacred tasks. Then we have a whole series of scholars who interpret these writings and seek wisdom from them via inspiration and visions.

It is not my job to criticise their methodology and a lot of good work has come from much meditation on the ancient writings. Where problems occur is where Man tries to force God into his interpretations and science as well.

This is where much is said and many outlandish claims are made, Genesis, or Evolution. Millions of years or 7 Days? Ancient Man or Adam, Pre-Adamites or ex-nihilo creation of man, etc., etc.

Contents:

1 Religions and Creations

2 Science Starts and Evolution

3 Modern Scholoship and Practice

4 Creation and Intelligent Design

References:

1. https://"http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/behe.html"Irredicible Complexity and Michael Behe.

2. https://"http://www.talkreason.org/articles/HistoryID.cfm"Creationism/ID A Short History, by Lenny Flank

3. https://"http://www.talkreason.org/articles/HistoryID2.cfm"A History of the Intelligent Design Movement, by Lenny Flank

4. https://="http://www.talkdesign.org/faqs/theftovertoil/theftovertoil.html...The advantages of theft over toil: the design inference and arguing from ignorance. One of my Internet friend John S Wilkins and Wesley R Elsberry.

Religions and Creations