OK, we have what, a bushel full of articles on Intelligent design (ID)? OK, here is another, and for the record.
Do I believe in ID? I believe that it is a possibility.
Why? Because evolution does not address all the questions and there are a ton of inconsistencies.
DO I know it is true? Hello! I said it was a possibility, not a fact.
Do I advocate teaching it in science class? NO! I believe in teaching it in philosophy as I think all my answers are consistent with.
Can it be true? Until we know all the facts, YES! The simple facts that the theories now taught as facts have holes in them, means that the possibilities exist.
In the end, it may or may not be true. But this is what I do believe (outside of religion).
We are not alone. Our solar system is young. There may be races out there far older than ours and may have visited our planet before. How would one explain the fact that the Egyptians, Mayans, Incans and Aztecs created pyramids? Sure random chance plays a part. IT could be random. But is it?
I will tell you what I am not. I am not a human ego centrist. I don't believe in this vast universe that we are the only sentient beings. We may be the most advanced, or we may not.
To me, ID has very little to do with a God, and everything to do with seeding the stars.
just suppose we finally reach out to the stars. And we find some earth like planets that are a botanical garden, yet with no animal life. Do you think we are going to just leave it that way? NO! We are going to 'seed' it. And seed it with animal life, and perhaps if our TECHNOLOGY is advanced enough, with sentient life.
Why? It may be to have a bunch of willing farmers to grow food for us. It may be so that astronauts can have some one to talk to. Or it may be that a marooned astronaut got horny!
I find it laughable that so many are so willing to dismiss the idea of ID when the fact is the more we learn, the more we realize we plain don't know.
Science (yes that bug a boo!) has traced human ancestry to a woman in Africa about 250k years ago. So who was the father? Can anyone prove to me the father was not an alien? can Darwin explain that?
The answer to both is NO. It may have been oog the cave man. It may not have been. And you know why?
Because we DON'T KNOW.
So to those who are so adamant against ID, I challenge you. Explain why we can trace humanity to a single female 250k years ago. And yet we don't know the father.
you do that, and I will abandon this hypothesis. Until then, I only have one thing to say.
The earth is not flat! Open your mind to the possibilities!