Intelligent Design

Intelligent Design?  

OK, I’m gonna channel Hubie Brown here…  

Let me get this straight…  You’re trying to explain the existence of the universe.  You have scientists who are smarter than you disagreeing about the evolutionary process, so you come up with a theory about a divine being that doesn’t need any scientific theories because it’s all based on faith.  To make it seem more logical, you call it “Intelligent Design”.  Well, by definition, anyone who disagrees with it must be UN-intelligent.  I see tons of upside to this theory.  Nothing but upside.

Back to Earth now…

I’ve always had SOME issues with scientific explanations to cosmic timeframes.  I mean, Carbon-14 dating might say that a rock is five billion years old… but how do we know that it really is that old?  Suppose the rock is only two thousand years old?  We have no way to verify it unless some papyrus was kept with the rock since the beginning of recorded history.  We’re only making guesses as to the half-life of Carbon in our own little cosmic window.  So “science” has tenuous threads running all through the theories that have been presented as “facts” for a long time.

But that doesn’t suddenly re-introduce the “Creator” as the best solution to these threads…  After all, where did the Creator come from?  And where did he get his ideas?  Does he wear clothes?  If not, what made him think of them?  Why would he make someone like Terrell Owens?  Face it, any theory that cannot be proved or disproved isn’t a theory, it’s a statement of faith at best, a wild guess at worst.  To have it taught in public schools is like questioning the periodic table.  Why is hydrogen first?  I don’t understand the science behind the periodic table, so it mustn’t be true.  Someone else must have “designed” it.  Like a God.

These ID adherents probably believe that “Capricorn One” was a documentary too.

Please.  If you don’t understand something, that doesn’t automatically make it God’s will.  And if you understand something, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s true.  If God meant for us to teach it in school, he would’ve made us all Catholic.