Re: black holes and intelligent design

manutter51_at_yahoo.com
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: 27 Feb 2005 16:42:40 -0800

cafei...@msn.com wrote:
> I sense hostility in many of the replies to my arguments. Why? The
> theory of intelligent design explains how life got here.

There is a difference between explanation (in the scientific sense) and
attribution. A scientific explanation describes the operation of some
specific process that can be directly or indirectly observable and that
is more likely to produce one certain kind of result than it is to
produce any other kind of result. ID does not describe any specific
process that can be directly or indirectly observed to produce life
forms, it simply *attributes* the creation of life to an unidentified
intelligent designer, based on the current lack of knowledge about how
certain aspects of biology and biochemistry could have evolved.

Even if you suppose that God did originally come up with the design for
life on earth, you're still not saying anything scientifically
definable about the *process* by which those designs would have been
realized and made physically real. Thus, evolution is still the best
*scientific* explanation for how the species actually got here,
regardless of where their design came from.

Plus you have to admit, with the hostile and ever-changing conditions
life has to cope with, it would be a fairly inept and unintelligent
designer who would somehow fail to equip his creatures with the ability
to evolve and adapt. Intelligent design is not evidence against
evolution, but (from a metaphysical standpoint) the design of evolution
itself may be the best evidence in favor of the intelligence of the
Designer.

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