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>>>Of evolutionists, I believe that the majority believe in theistic creation, that is, that God created the universe in a way that can be explained by scientific methods, and a minority are agnostics or atheists.

....other words, they want science AND the Bible to be compatible, and don't question the fallacious arguments advanced on behalf of Intelligent Design.

BUMP!!!!

58 posted on 07/09/2003 1:17:42 PM PDT by Calpernia (Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions.)

I do believe in theistic creation, but not Intelligent Design as it is presently formulated.

Saying "we don't know how it happened so God did it via special creation" isn't science.

The flaws in teleological arguments in biology are as follows - they are:
1. vitalistic (positing some special "life-force"); 2. requiring backwards causation (because future outcomes explain present traits); 3. incompatible with mechanistic explanation (because of 1 and 2); 4. mentalistic (attributing the action of mind where there is none); 5. empirically untestable (for all the above reasons). Teleological Notions in Biology