Saturday, May 05, 2007

Theological Dictionary word of the day: Intelligent Design
Time magazine cover,  August 15, 2005 Intelligent design (ID) is the concept that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection." Its leading proponents, all of whom are affiliated with the Discovery Institute, say that intelligent design is a scientific theory that stands on equal footing with, or is superior to, current scientific theories regarding the origin of life.

More and more of the scientific community are beginning to view intelligent design as a valid scientific theory.

  • The Evidence in Cosmology
    The Kalam cosmological argument is espousing a more powerful and compelling impetus.
  • The Evidence in Physics
    The "Anthropic principle" lead Patrick Glynn to abandon atheism. He says, "Today the concrete data point strongly in the direction of the God hypothosis. It is the simplist and most obvious solution to the anthropic puzzle."
  • The evidence in Astronomy
    "If the universe had not been made with the most exacting precision we could never have come into existance. It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in." -John A. O'Keefe of NASA
  • The evidence in Biochemistry
    Michael Behe has demostrated that Darwin's theory has broken down, through his description of "irreducibly complex" machines.
  • The evidence in Biological Information
    Stephen C. Meyer (Cambridge) has demonstrated that no hypothosis explains how information got into biological matter through naturalistic means.
  • The evidence in Consciousness
    "You can't get something from nothing. If the universe began with dead matter having no consciousness, how, then, do you get something totally different--consciousness, living, thinking, feeling, believing, creatures--from materials that don't have that?" -J. P. Moreland

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