Point of information?

[scarfman]

I realize that the Intelligent Design school of thought is the creation of creationists. Literalist Christians want equal time in the science class. Religion doesn't belong in science class, so this is what they came up with. But what does the doctrine of Intelligent Design specifically teach? Did they in fact remove all the religion from it? Does it teach only a theory that there may be a greater mind behind the universe - or does it teach that God created the world in six days, male and female made He us, and on the seventh day He rested? Because, if the former, what's wrong with it? How isn't it science to say there may be such a being? How is it even incompatible with evolution theory to say there may be such a being? Seems to me, a designer who could come up with evolution is pretty intelligent.

What are the details? Do you even know?

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[antikythera.livejournal.com]

Seems to me, a designer who could come up with evolution is pretty intelligent.

I once listened to a lecturer from the Vatican Observatory talk about just that. His attitude was basically that understanding (through observation and logical thought) how God made nature leads to a better understanding of God. Evolution and the big bang didn't contradict his belief in God in any way; they're just how God did stuff.