What is Intelligent Design

[Tah_Dah_Man]

“Darwin, it has become commonplace to acknowledge, never really addressed the “origin of species” in his book of that title.” –Niles Eldredge, Ph.D. (geologist, paleontologist, and atheist), “Progress in Evolution?” -New Scientist, vol. 110 (June 5, 1986), pg. 55. -On: Darwin’s Origin of Species by Natural Selection (1859) (Ch. 6.)

“Much of what Darwin taught has been rejected and surpassed by modern evolutionists, but the doctrine of natural selection has been maintained.” –Geisler, When Skeptics Ask, pg. 212. {Darwin’s Gradualism Vs. Punctuated Equilibrium.}

“Creationists, of course, have always argued that, while natural selection is a real process that serves to eliminate unfit organisms, it could never create the complex, wonderfully adapted organisms found in the living world.” –H.M. Morris, The Modern Creation Trilogy, vol. 2, Science & Creation (1996), Master Books, pg. 34.

“Their theory (Niles Eldredge & Stephen Jay Gould’s Punctuated Equilibrium)…appears to be based solely on the absence of transitional fossils. Darwin, after all, understood suddenness to be evidence of Creation. If this is true, then it supports what Creationists said all along – the sudden appearance of fully formed animals is evidence of Creation.” –Geisler, pg. 231.

What will your answer be when someone asks you,
“In the Light of Science and the Bible, How did things begin?
Naturally? (No ID)
Or, supernaturally?” (ID)

 

[edwest2]

Intelligent Design means that an intelligence directed whatever types of evolution occurred.

Recently, the nonsense observation was put forth that just because humans can breed dogs or horses, that this is ‘evolution’ in action. Nonsense. Humans of different races can have children. No big deal. In the end, a dog doesn’t ‘evolve’ into a cat or a horse.

The entirely speculative “this mutated into that” is just not proven. Some years ago, someone decided to mutate fruit flies. They ended up with some really messed up fruit flies but they all remained fruit flies. Did you know that bacteria can exchange bits of genetic material between each other, even different species?

Viruses can mutate. Yeah, so what? They don’t become multicelled organisms, grow legs and start walking. They are and will always remain, viruses.

The fear over Intelligent Design among non-believers is “Could it be God? I don’t want it to be God. Because if it’s God, then I’ll be forced to abandon my current belief system - naturalism.” Everything just came together by itself. Yeah, right. I’ll just drop all the parts for a Boeing 747 on the ground and hope a tornado comes by to assemble it.

God bless,
Ed

 

[Tah_Dah_Man]

Gee, is there a way to verify each Pope’s historical view on a possible evolution and/or a possible literal six-day creation?

Douay-Rheims Bible
EXODUS 20:11
“For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.”

Again, from the time that this current Pope expressed his views, are all of the next successions bound to follow suite - no matter what?

(For example, say one or more of the past Popes expressed that it was in literally six days, like it says in the Scriptures.)

Oh! What inconsistency!

Who’s then, The Heretic?