[NRA Patriot 1976]

I'm a graduate student studying Neuroscience and I have been studying Biology for over 6 years in state universities under some of the biggest names in Science (nobel prize winning laureates, etc.) and I see no way that Darwin's theory could explain all of the complexity that is life. Even the most seasoned scientists I've dealt with when confronted with the immense numbers of protein-protein interactions that much occur in exact fashion, for example, hint at the impossibility that life could evolve to it's present form over millions of years by chance. I'm a firm believer in Intelligent Design but I understand the that Darwin's theory is currently the only way that scientists have to explain how life came about and I keep my personal religious beliefs out of my workplace because I know that Creationism cannot be proven absolutely either because that would deprive us of our having to rely on faith in God.

[tallhappy]

The people who participate in these threads are not scientists and do not understand science.

They are not able to separate their religious visceral reactions from objective discussion or analysis.

I'm talking mainly of the pro-evolutionists.

[Zeroisanumber]

I'm a firm believer in Intelligent Design but I understand the that Darwin's theory is currently the only way that scientists have to explain how life came about...

I'm not into the whole Internet 'gotcha!' game, but that's a pretty inexact statement for a graduate student in Neuroscience to make.

[Abulafia]

Darwin's theory is currently the only way that scientists have to explain how life came about

I honestly don't know of anyone who uses Darwin's theory to explain how life came about except creationists. Have you honestly ever read Origin of Species?

[narby]

I see no way that Darwin's theory could explain all of the complexity that is life.

Trillions of simultaneous processes over an entire planet for billions of years can do some impressive things.

Parallel processing is always faster.

[R. Scott]

I've dealt with when confronted with the immense numbers of protein-protein interactions that much occur in exact fashion, for example, hint at the impossibility that life could evolve to it's present form over millions of years by chance.

Millions? How about billions – about 2.5 billion years? Did you cut a few classes?

[Malesherbes]

Good contribution by NRA Patriot. This is pretty deep water for me, but I am still waiting for some of the Evolutionists to explain the Cambrian Explosion.

[connectthedots]

I'm a firm believer in Intelligent Design but I understand the that Darwin's theory is currently the only way that scientists have to explain how life came about and I keep my personal religious beliefs out of my workplace because I know that Creationism cannot be proven absolutely either because that would deprive us of our having to rely on faith in God.

I am also a believer in ID/Creation. Since neither evolution not ID/Creation can be duplicated and thus not proved with 100 percent certainty, a degree of faith is required to believe in either model (they are not theories, as you must realize). Without the possibility of proving either model, one is left to examine the evidence. There is plenty of evidence to casts serious doubts on the evolution model; so much that it would take a great deal of faith to believe it offers a rational explanation.

ID/Creation cannot be proven in a positive sense. While I may seem far-fetched to many on the surface, having faith in it is a viable position if for no other reason than that the statistical odds against evolution are so great as to be incomprehensible.

This does nothing to 'prove' ID/Creation, but if evolution is eliminated, it leaves ID/Creation as the only viable possibility, unless someone can come up with another possibility; one i have yet to see put forth.

Aside from this, my belief in ID/Creation rests primarily with the consistencies and historical truth of the Bible that are so persuasive, at least in my mind, that belief in ID/Creation isn't much more of a stretch. Sure, believing in ID requires some faith, but not nearly as much faith as belief in evolution.

[republicanequestrian]

Hurray and thank you for your faith--I'm not a bio student but all the science courses I've taken teach nothing but evolution!