06-27-2017, 01:54 PM
(06-27-2017, 12:59 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Not just Mike Pence, but I would think virtually every person of faith believes in intelligent design unless I'm misunderstanding the term. I understand it to mean God had some role in at least kicking off the process.
Well, it is a term used by creation "science" to replace "creationism" in textbooks, or at least that is how it started. Now there are degreed biologists who are trying to develop it into a scientific theory. They grant the overall tendency of evolution, but latch onto fuzzy areas where they think the sudden appearance of complexity means a controlling "intelligence" must account for it.
It is still Paley's clockwork argument, just reduced and applied to different points in the course of evolution.
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