[Publius6961]

What's the Big Deal About Intelligent Design?

I love articles and posts with such useful economical headlines.

Either way, from both perspectives, pro or con, it is a "Big Deal" only to persons so easily obsessed as to be on my lifetime Avoid at all Costs list...

[r9etb]

Either way, from both perspectives, pro or con, it is a "Big Deal" only to persons so easily obsessed as to be on my lifetime Avoid at all Costs list...

LOL! There's something to that....

On the other hand, when conducted civilly the debate can be really quite interesting and fun.

[WmCraven_Wk]

Core of the Argument: The arguments put forth by the ID theorists -- hammering home the fundamental, longstanding, unresolved flaws in Darwinism, and demonstrating affirmatively that life exhibits evidence of design -- have not been refuted. Counterarguments fly as fast in this debate as the arguments, and neither side can claim victory. It is precisely because intelligent design relies exclusively on scientific methods, evidence, and reasoning that the Darwinist establishment is going bonkers. But there is another reason that goes even deeper. Let us suppose for a moment that the scientific evidence, evaluated in a truly impartial manner, would strongly point to design by a creator rather than to undirected natural forces as the source of life. Let us suppose, just for the sake of argument, that this evidence was really quite manifest and clear. What then? Would all the scientists, philosophers, political advocacy groups, teachers' unions, journalists, and others who were previously committed to Darwinism follow that evidence exactly where it leads? Would they shrug and say, "Oh, OK. We were wrong," and admit that the design thesis is the best explanation? Or would a large body of opinion, scientific and otherwise, insist that anything that points to a creator, regardless of the evidence, is automatically "not science"? A designer who actually works in the world is a concept that some cannot admit even to be a possibility. It is ruled out in advance on philosophical grounds. Although there are nuances and intermediate positions, ID has stirred up a conflict between two competing worldviews: materialism and theism.

[wallcrawlr]

ha ha...clever post.

[70times7]

it is a "Big Deal" only to persons so easily obsessed as to be on my lifetime Avoid at all Costs list

In at #2 on a topic that rivals zots for the numbers of posts and heat of flames?!? Methinks thou dost protest too much.