Are people who advocate intelligent design stupid ?
Posted by James on October 19, 2010 · 19 Comments
Question by ChRiSTiAN dEATH: Are people who advocate intelligent design stupid ?
and do you think natural selection will operate to remove them from future generations?
http://www.religiousfreedom.com/links/nr.htm
Best answer:
Answer by Matt A
Are you proposing the extermination of christians?
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Not stupid, some can provide intriguing arguments.
I do wait and see with anticipation how religion will evolve in future generations.
Hatred and bigotry are profoundly unattractive. It speaks volumes about the hatrer, and says nothing of consequence about the group(s) whom they visciously and repeatedly attack.
? maybe
The universe is like a finely tuned watch.Who’s the watch maker?
Sure, man.
only if lions are permited to roam free in churches
I would say they are correct in saying that God created the universe, but some of there biblical interpretations are incorrect and can not be substantiated by science; for example the 6,000 year old earth.
I on the other hand, believe Genesis is not about creation, but about the restoration of the earth after the 6th mass extinction. Ofcourse there was evolution before the extinction, but I see genetic engineering during the restoration process. I firmly believe there is no conflict between science and belief in God.
They are not stupid, they are misinformed. It is the culture they are raised in that cements their belief system in place. Natural selection will make the entire human race extinct. We are all fools that have killed ourselves and our children.
Not stupid, just desparate. The fact that intelligent design exists at all, is an indication that many thinking people in Christianity are coming to the conclusion that the bible may be incorrect.
Intelligent design is an attempt to justify mistakes in the bible and repackage them to justify belief in the Bible.
It is very similar to a child who has been caught lying, coming up with a last ditch excuse to justify thier actions. The last excuses is usually the one that makes the least sense, and ultimately leads to the child admitting guilt.
I imagine there have been many Christians who take a good look at intelligent design and realize that it all must be a ruse because intelligent design essentially changes the literal text in the bible.
Hard to say about whether natural selection will thin out the intelligent design herd. But, I was thinking the other day, to start accepting their contrived explanations has no end. For example, they could say the Wright Brothers did not invent flying, it says so in the Bible.
Stupid? Maybe, and/or ill informed, brainwashed, misled, gullible, fearful, in denial, and ignorant.
Despite claims to the contrary, they are scientifically illiterate, otherwise they would embrace ALL mainstream scientific principles and understandings, which leaves no room for an anthropocentric deity or magic sky fairy..
I think they find the myth more appealing than the truth, so they profess to believe it.
As long as we have meds to keep diabetics alive, meds to keep bipolar from suicide, viagra to keep old guys breeding longer ,natural selection will not improve the species.
Has anyone invented a time machine to see how the world started? Who can ultimately answer this honestly?
*Glares at Y A*
Actually, the book of Genesis as accurate as to both quantum physics, the big bang, and the theory of evolution.
Even Darwin believed in the bible.
God used evolution by changing the DNA in the sperm and egg to create a new creature.
There were never enough large mammals on earth to account for so many changes in such a short period of time, even if the earth were blasted by x-rays for a million years, natural mutations would not happen enough to create humans.
Sorry to both extreme groups, but science and the bible agree.
No. This is the land of the free!!! To try to change that is STUPID.
most of these answers lac k any sense and are more focused on hate and backing up of ones own disbelief in anything. most atheist cannot accept the fact that the possibility of God is a reality. then they must face a multitude of evidences that lead one in a direction of an intelligent designer. the shear complexity of everything and the information contained in the universe indicates an intellgence behind everything. since the universe had a beginning it was either mechanical or intelligent. it cannot be mechanical because for it to be mechanical there would have to a be a mechanical cause before the mechanical cause ad infinite.
therefore, it must have been intellgent. God is referenced as being pure energy or light. light cannot be destroyed and is eternal. God is the same.
those who dont believe in this must thereofe believe that the universe either poped into existence out of nothing or they believe that it was a mechanical process but are left with an illogical conclusion. science will evern confirm or leave the door wide open on this subject because logically there is only really one answer that makes the most sense.
either a creative force was behind the beginning or all of this just happened out of nothing and for no reason. not to mention the fact that such a thing happening is more likely to happen then someone winning the lottery 1000 times in a row.
out of chaos there is chaos….not order.
out of nothing there is nothing….not complex design
if the universe just happened there would be no meaning to anything because it would have all been a fluke. we would therefore not know what meaning was and could never say that anything has no meaning. as if the world never had light darkness would have no meaning
0+0=0
Check out this web site and see if you think these people are stupid – http://www.reasons.org
Yeah, I guess all those people who have their Ph.D in biology, biochemistry, physics, geology, botany, microbiology, theoretical chemistry, chemical engineering, paleontology, archaeology, neuroscience, astronomy, electromagnetics, entomology, molecular and cellular pharmacology, and astrophysics who believe in intelligent design MUST be stupid. 🙂
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/bios/
Don’t be silly. There’s lots of evidence that the universe and life itself is too fine-tuned to be an accident. As a matter of fact, it is a mathematical impossibility that it was an accident.
i am frightened by that question !