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20051108 Tuesday November 08, 2005

 Intelligent Design eh?

Robin already commented about this in his blogs, but since it was on the radio this morning and is one of my favourite areas of discussion I couldn't resist.

Ordinarily I don't give much credence to the creationism crowd, as I've found in the past that they play 'fast and loose' with science, taking what few documents support their point of view and disregarding copious amounts that contradict them.... not unlike the global warming brigade, and the politicians, and the prevaling scientific opinion...(cough, cough)... and thereby I've defined the problem, everyone has a blunt axe hanging around.

I guess the 'theory' of evolution (if it's true) implies there is no God and this gives the creatonists a problem. Interestingly though, I've spoken to a few creationists who also deny the theories of quantum mechanics, though oddly enough they are quite happy to enjoy using CD players and computers to churn out their material, funny that.

If you believe in God, then great, but you have to realise there is no way you can prove it. Faith is 'the continuing hope that a belief is true'. If you prove something you don't need faith anymore, unless your proof is wrong. If God exists it matters little whether he created the world in six days with the wave of an ephemeral hand or 4.6 billion years by instituting the laws of physics as we've discovered them. Religious types should look to their issues of bigotry, racism and sexism before they worry about such esoteric issues.

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As an atheist, I take exception to the position: I guess the 'theory' of evolution (if it's true) implies there is no God. It certainly implies that certain putative narrative accounts of God-in-the-world are false, and others are deeply implausible, but there are plenty of other notions of "God" that are entirely compatible with evolution. Indeed the big problem with using the term "God" is that it's hopelessly ambiguous.

The problem with creationists, and the faith-based crowd in general, is that they don't believe in science, by which I mean the scientific stance on how to discover truths about the world. And as you point out there's a deeply hypocritical world-view involved. Will they really reject a bird-flu drug because the development process was based on evolutionary genetics rather than intelligent design?

Posted by Geoff Arnold on November 08, 2005 at 05:56 PM GMT #

Thanks for that Geoff, you're absolutely right. I guess I had a sort of Judo-Christian God in mind there, actively intervening at points in history. As one creationist put it - "Putting dinosaur bones in the ground to confuse the wicked scientists!" ;-)

Posted by Drew on November 09, 2005 at 10:00 AM GMT #

A "Judo-Christian God", eh?
Presumably that's the kind which off-balances you, using the momentum of your own wrong-doing to bring you down... (only to forgive you once you're on the mat) ;^)

Posted by Robin Wilton on January 27, 2006 at 12:21 PM GMT #

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