What makes intelligent design a religion and evolution a science considering no was here for either?
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Whaddaya mean no one was here for either. The world evolves every second of every day. As for intelligent design, would you look at one of the pyramids of Egypt and say "wow..look what the wind did".  Isn't life, even in its simplest form, much more complex than the pyramids?
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It does not matter what I believe. The theory of evolution by natural selection is overwhelmingly supported by fact and argument. Intelligent Design is not supported by any facts that I know of and the argument seems to be basically, " a argument from ignorance ".
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Well, creationism by definition requires faith since it has at it's core a being that cannot be subjected to experimentation. Evolution, on the other hand, is a natural process and can therefore be subjected to the scientific method (observation, hypothesis, experimentation, theory).\n\nAll the scientific evidence that has been accumulated through the years points to the evolutionary process as the means by which all the species today developed. There is no hard scientific evidence in creationism (the Bible doesn't count as it's not accepted as historical fact - no evidence to prove/disprove).\n\nDon't get me wrong, I'm not saying that creationism couldn't have happened, but there is no evidence to support it.
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Why does evolution have to mean there is not a God?
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Intelligent Design is basically saying that some intelligent being (God or some alien from outside this Universe) created our universe and life as we know it.  Its basic philosophy is that our universe is too complex to have happened by accident.  Particularly that even the simplest form of life could never have come into existence randomly.\n\nAn example used is the "watch theory".  If you put all the necessary parts of a watch in a jar, and shook the jar randomly, even in four billion years the watch would never put itself together.  The same is said of life: a bacterium is much more complex than a watch, so how could it have randomly appeared?\n\nI see Intelligent Design as a crossover between the "Big Bang" theory and the "Seven Days" theory.  The universe was created by God, who also created the laws of Physics.  So the Bible is right that God created the Universe, and scientists are right that it didn't suddenly appear in its present state...parts were created, and parts evolved.\n\nSo both theories are valid in Intelligent Design.  But yes, I have heard both Evolutionists and Creationists mock the Intelligent Design theory.\n\nIntelligent Design is one argument widely used by creationists.  It has taken on popularity as discoveries in biology and physics reveal how intricate our universe and we, ourselves, are.
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evolution is just mans way of trying to understand how life got here and is how it is. Its a theory and not a proven fact. People just refuse to believe a higher power created them.\nI believe in breeding and that's it. God created basic life on the planet and then through breeding of those animals we got several different species in one classification of such.
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if it was created by a creator, what then created the creator?\n\nOur physics breaks down inside an Event Horizon so there's really no way of currently knowing as to how it formed.  All we know is we're here, and by random chance.  \n\nCreationism is not a plausible explanation nor is "intelligent design."
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"Intelligent design" is a meaningless term and it has nothing to do with the biblical God.\n\nMany atheists, including Einstein, used the term. And, they did not use it to mean that a God of any kind existed or "created" the universe.\n\nEinstein also used the word "God," but he did not use the term to mean "Supreme Being" or God of the bible. He used it in reference to the orderliness of the universe.\n\nThe answer is "no."
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Sure. \nLike Southpark said, evolution answers the question how, and religion answers the question why.
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Here's something I found on the internet that might answer your question:\n\nScience and Spirituality: An Islamic View of Creation & Life\n\nAccording to Islamic tradition, life is God's creation - regardless of whether life was specially created or resulted from evolution. Evolution itself is a process of creation as admitted by Darwin in The Origin of Species. \n\n \n\nCreation falls into four categories - inanimate matter, plants, animals and human beings. According to Islam, all four are separate creations. Among living things, a number of species co-exist, all having been created separately. There is doubtless some similarity in physical attributes; yet, each has a permanent, separate existence. There is no concept of a missing link in Islam.
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Intelligent Design is basically a 'god of the gaps' argument. The basic claim is that there are structures that are 'irreducibly complex' and so show outside design. The problem is that the examples given are NOT irreducibly complex! The authors of ID just aren't smart enough to figure out the mechanism. The key point to note is that an ancestral process doesn't have to do the same thing the modern process does or to have all the steps of the modern process.\n\nFor example, the blood-clotting cascade is often sited as being irreducibly complex even though we know that other animals have simpler versions that work reasonably well for them. By doing comparative studies, it is even possible to figure out what the evolutionary mechanism was for the process. Similar considerations happen with bacterial flagella, eyes, and other supposedly irrecubily complex things.
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Creation.  Our world is made so that it is able to be lived in  by mankind.  Even though it does not seem to be such, we are a gigantic spaceship that is able to sustain a multiplicity different life forms, each very complex.\n\nEither a person accepts God as being Creator, or they accept the modern religion of evolution/big bang.
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Science/evolution is how.\nReligion/God is why.
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There is a wonderful book published by the Vatican Observatory called "Physics, Philosophy, and Theology:  A Common Quest for Understanding."  It is edited by Robert John Russell, William R. Stoeger, S.J., and George V. Coyne, S.J.\n\nThis book is a collection of articles on Science and Religion by Christian scholars, most of them I think Catholic.  Some of its contributors are:\nIan G. Barbour\nErnan McMullin\nMichael J. Buckley, S.J.\nRichard J. Clifford\nFrank J. Tipler,\nand more.\n\nAlso, there is a good book called "Perspectives on an Evolving Creation" edited by Keith B. Miller, which contains articles by Christian scholars and scientists.  I think most of the contributors in this book are Protestant, but there may be some Catholics as well.  It includes:\n\nDeborah Haarsma\nConrad Hyers\nEdward B. Davis\nMark A. Noll\nDavid Livingstone\nLoren Haarsma\nJeffrey Greenberg\nHoward J. Van Till\nRobert John Russell\nand others\n\nWilliam Dembski is a prominent advocate of the "Intelligent Design" theory.  \nMichael Behe is also an advocate of Intelligent Design and has written "Darwin's Black Box" in which he argues that evolutionary theory does not account for "irreducible complexities."  He means by this systems which seem to need all the parts in order to function, such as the eye, or even a cell.\n\nOf course, Behe and Dembski are highly criticized, and you can see their views as well as their opponents' views in a book called, "Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics" edited by Robert T. Pennock.\n\nAlvin Plantinga has written extensively on science and theology, and he is anti-evolution.\n\nThe writers in the Perspectives on an Evolving Creationism book are mostly (I think all) pro-evolution, and yet they are Christians.\n\nMichael Ruse, while I don't think he is actually a Christian, has a book called "Can A Darwinian Be A Christian" in which the answer is yes.  \n\nI hope this helps!
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First, note that evolution and the existence of god are NOT mutually exclusive; evolution could be a fact (and it is) but could have been "launched" by a god and left to run, rather like a computer program.\n\nHowever, if there IS no god, we are left to our own devices to devise a morality.  One possibility would be to designate as "immoral" any actions that cannot be performed by everyone and still keep a functioning society.  That is, if you shoot me, and he shoots you, and she shoots him, etc., eventually there will be no one left and the species will die out.
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The objective of the search for truth begins by answering questions, that lead to new questions, etc. Some would call this flawed, but in reality we are meant to search. In intelligent design (the new name for creationism), you begin with the thought that the answers are preordained, then you submit your findings to fit what is written. Sorry, but Creationism or ID has no place in a Science class. You can not measure advances in Creation. Religion or Philosophy classes perhaps, but not Science.
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Science is all about understanding the universe we live in.  If God created this universe, isn't science then just an attempt to understand what God created?  Science and religion are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but problems do arise when scientific conclusions and religious beliefs do not match, and should that be the case it's up to you to decide what you feel is the most correct answer.