[tpanther]

Trying to understand biology without evolution is like trying to understand the current world situation with absolutely no knowledge of history.

I think Agamemnon's tagline addresses such utter absurd nonsense.

[allmendream]

Incompetent design doesn't address the issue at all, it posits that “the designer” was far too incompetent to make a system sufficient unto itself and mystical magical powers had to be used.

That is not science, it is god of the gaps. As a scientists and a Christian my assumption must be, when doing science, that God made a seamless universe that runs by the laws the HE set down.

Many quite correctly point out that the view of God that created an ordered universe is one of the reasons that both Jewish and Christian societies have been such fertile grounds for scientific progress, and that indeed much of the scientific progress of the last century has been by those of either Jewish or Christian faith, or of that culture.

Incompetent design replaces the God of the ordered universe with a “designer” who is like a guy with a leaky roof in a rainstorm running around putting up buckets and patching up holes.