Category: evolution

A Primer on Intelligent Design

A Primer on Intelligent Design

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Intelligent Design, or simply ID, is a pretty fascinating area of study to me. Put simply, it postulates that life is too complex to have arisen by chance, and that the intricacies we can observe in the physical world demand that some sort of intelligence was involved in its creation. Despite all of the scientists involved in promoting the idea, its detractors insist that it is not science, which shows, in my opinion, that they either don’t know what they’re talking about, or that that DO know what they’re talking but really want to keep ID off the table for fear of losing their materialistic grip on science and education. With that in mind, it was with great joy that I came across a great primer on Intelligent Design at Salvo Magazine, which has several articles on the topic written by some the brightest minds in the ID movement. If the area is of interest to you, or if you think these ID people are religious nuts masquerading as scientists, you should check out the issue.

Time of the Gaps

Time of the Gaps

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Evolution is a pretty hot topic.  Pretty much every atheist believes it, as do some Christians.  Stories like this one only bolster the arguments for evolution being real (or do they?) At any rate, I’ve always been a bit annoyed by the evolutionist’s attack on creationism by claiming the we fall victim to the God of the Gaps fallacy.  As people smarter than I have pointed out, evolutionists do this to.  Many if not most evolutionists have made up their minds that it actually happened (that is, all life arose from a single organism through a means of natural selection, i.e., macro-evolution.  Micro-evolution is demonstrable fact), and refuse to entertain the idea that they may be wrong.  Their argument appears to me to be something like, “I know this is true because we’ve decided it is.  The evidence we need is out there somewhere.  We just need more time to find the evidence.”  I think I’ll call that the Time of the Gaps fallacy.

With that in mind, since evolutionists get a pass on it, I’m going to apply it to creationism:  I know God created the world because the Bible (which is demonstrably reliable in areas for which is intended,i.e., not biology class) tells me so.  I don’t think evolution was the way he did it, and I can’t give you a good answer for the rock you hold in your hand, but someday I will.  And, who knows?  Maybe when I die, I’ll find out that God did in fact use evolution as the means of creation.  Either way, I just need more time.