Intelligent Design

So, we have been hearing a lot about this stuff over the past several years if not more. We saw how some loudmouths who claimed to be fighting for freedoms manage to censor religious rights and even certain social foundations based in religion within this country. Amazing that these people have survived for so long being as thick headed and ignorant as they are, but that could be said of soem on both sides I suppose. Another post, another time.

I assume we have all heard about the Intelligent Design contraversy if only in context to the school system. Intelligent Design (ID) being a philosophy/movement to reintroduce God into a society that has become eager to have Him removed. Or another interpretation (science-wise) would be the science of detecting design in the world that goes beyond human design. Attempting to play against Evolutionists and Naturalists on their own playing field.

Of course these opponents aren't to happy about it for the most part. Making claims that, at a glance, seem a bit stupid. They have claimed that it is simply an attack on science, which I have never heard someone say or support in my 26 years. Biblicaly I have never found support for religion to denounce science unless certain values and priniciples are at stake. They also say that it doesn't fit the true or legal deffinitions of science or scientific theory. In all honestly it only meets a scarce few of these requirements but is it really trying to be a science?. (On a side note the requirements for something to be "scientific" are simply hilarious, not difficult just absurd.) According to Phillip Johnson, creator of the Wedge Strategy and aparent head of ID, this is simply a way of repackaging creation by God (not creationism which is very broad) to help bring it back into schools as well as the scientific community. It has never really been about science more than philosophy.

Personaly, I don't know exactly what to think about it yet. You would think that I would be quick to get behind it and don't get me wrong I am behind it, but it isn't a simple topic. Their are so many angles that people are coming in on this one. Politically, Socially, Religiously, and of course Scientifically if not others. So much to factor in and so many chances to be had. So many opinions and so many processes. Sheesh. But if it can manage to accomplish the two goals it has set forth than more power to it. They never taught Evolution as origin in my high school but we did have the theory of evolution in biology. I think any place that teaches Evolution (or any of its sister theories) should also offer something along the lines of ID. I wouldn't mind at all if they managed to make a science out of it either. It would be a sience of looking for Gods fingerprints more than proving His existence but I imagine that their will never be such a thing as that at least not in the scientific community.

Their is so much to read behind this Intelligent Design controversy that I honestly gave up for now so I could go back to other things, but it will very likely be a long fight. Something that will have me both smiling and shaking my head in the future.