Those Wacky Intelligent Design People

Courtesy Blonde Sagacity and interestingly, it's a blog that has the right-click disabled to prevent people from quoting her, or her guest bloggers. Luckily, anyone with a little bit of knowledge, however, can simply view the source for the page and pull whatever one needs to quote.

Now that I have that out of the way, why do I seriously entertain Intelligent Design as a viable theory? Simple, the science behind it has teeth.

What is so inherently wrong with this statement, and what immediately blows the entire argument set forth by the writer out of the water is that Intelligent Design is not science. It's the belief that a higher being, most likely one whose powers and abilities we cannot even comprehend, created this master plan, if you will, and was responsible for setting everything in motion.

Yet the author offers an analogy in support of a higher being.

Some may say "Well, maybe there was a different system in place, maybe radioactivity zapped a bunch of spare biological parts and it all came together". Not likely. This would be like taking a watch, breaking it down into component parts, throwing it in a box and giving the box a shake every million years. Even if, by some gigantic fluke, all of the pieces came together correctly, how would it start - what would wind it up?

How would it start, what would wind it up? This argument is poor, as anyone could counter with "where did the higher being come from?" Who created the higher being? If the author feels that it is impossible for living organisms to have been planted on earth with fully capable and functional body systems, how is it that the author believes that this higher being was formed fully capable and functional?

Seems a rather poor argument, if you ask me. You can't argue away evolution in it's entirety by saying some higher being made everything if you can't provide evidence for what brought that higher being into existence itself, fully formed and able to create our world.

Evolution is an attempt to explain the various forms of life on this planet in regards to their adaptation to the environments they live in. Certain physical characteristics may be positive attributes that enable life to exist in an area where otherwise, it could not. Take polar animals, for example. They typically have very thick layers of fat or blubber that enable them to winter (if you will) the cold and extreme conditions that are present in the polar regions. Yet in desert animals, you don't find thick layers of fat, do you? There's a reason for instances like this and it's called evolution. What's so hard to understand about the action of evolving?

Lastly, if you think Intelligent Design ought to be taught in school, what educational tool would it provide for students looking to get a rounded education and move onto college in a technical field? How will ID benefit a surgeon, or a veterinarian, a IT professional, an administrative supervisor, a police officer, a fire fighter, a soldier, a President, a receptionist, a burger-flipper, a gas-station attendant, a stay at home mother or father, a physics engineer, a mechanical engineer, or anyone else (most everyone) whose job relies on facts and factual consistencies that play out everyday in so many daily activities?

I'm not saying evolution is proven fact. In fact, nobody is saying that at all. Evolution is a theory and so far, it is one of the best theories available to explain the many differences that are visible, both internally and externally, on hundreds and thousands of species of mammal, reptile, insect, etc, that are present all over the world.

Maybe it's all just hooey, though and we ought to start believing again that the Sun really does rotate around the Earth and that the Earth is actually flat and if you walk too far, you will fall off the edge of it.