You can both believe in God and have a strong pro-science stance. Many people do. I do.
The Discovery Institute is about intelligent design. ID is another name for creationism. IOW, it’s anti-evolution.
Isn’t it possible to believe that God created evolution? Many people think so.
During my life I’ve met devout Christians - many of them - who also believe in the theory of evolution.
ID is not creationism or anti-evolution, nor is it a religious position. It is the application of design theory to the natural and living world. Intelligent design theorists point to the existence of precise physical laws and the fine tuning of universal constants, the staggering complexity and nanotechnology of the living cell, and the digitally-coded information content of DNA as evidence for a designing intelligence. The latter is particularly persuasive as all our experience indicates that information of the quality in DNA only arises from prior intelligence.
DNA has the following:
1. Functional InformationHow could such a system form randomly without any intelligence, and totally unguided?
2. Encoder
3. Error Correction
4. Decoder
What would come first - the encoder, error correction, or the decoder? How and where did the functional information originate?
Thanks for the input. I think what’s tripping me up is mostly definitional. ID vs. Creationist etc... I didn’t recognize them as the same thing. I always took creationism to mean a very young Earth, literal Genesis creation, and so on, and ID to be mostly about poking holes in evolution. Should make for some fun reading.