Intelligent Design and Evolution
Thomas Dawson
August 10, 2005
I am no fan of our President George W. Bush. But when he is right, he is almost right! The Theory of Evolution, as it is taught in our schools is deplorable. But, theory’s just “ain’t necessarily so”. A good theory is just an idea with a very high probability of credibility. How much time is attributed to making this point, before the teachers introduce this theory? This theory does not even have high credibility. Old scientific theories are like federal laws. Once they are in, they are difficult to remove. I would hope that a theory with this many holes would never pass muster to get into the schools today. Worse yet, this particular theory is usually taught as if it were Euclidean Geometry. As if it were a progression of linear and logical thought. This is not the case.
The best scenario the evolutionists have come up with for the origins of life require overcoming astronomical odds. It requires a runoff from the land of just the right chemicals, into an estuary to be hit by lightning and thereby incidentally create life. The problem compounds itself because this particular life form would have to be able to propagate itself. Indeed, not only would it need to propagate itself, but would have to be able to morph itself into another form which is biologically impossible due to DNA restraints.
The idea of evolutionary progression is brought into question at every front. All of the vertebrate groups, from fish to mammals appear at one time. Evolution would require thousands, if not millions of years for the original vertebrate to progress into the many vertebrate groups existing. The links between them should be scattered far and wide in the fossils. But they are not.
Much of this theory is based upon mutation. Certainly mutants are common. However, mutation does not cause major changes in life forms over thousands of years as proposed by the evolutionists. If this were true, there would be animal life fossils of particular animals without vision and others with varying degrees of eye development stretched over long periods of time, until finally some would have developed the ability to see. Such fossils do not exist. The same should be true of every organ and limb. We should be observing similar development of such things in the animals around us today.
Certainly we belong to the warm-blooded, vertebrate, mammal group. These are merely our biological attributes and do not prove a common heredity.
We cannot prove that the theory of evolution is wrong any more than the evolutionists can prove they are right. Neither can we prove that the theory of Intelligent Design is wrong or right. The fact is that neither of these is a scientific theory. They are both philosophical in nature and do not belong in a science class. Both of them require a leap of faith.
As I said, I am no fan of President Bush and I like to point it out when he is wrong. He is wrong. The theory of Intelligent Design should not be taught in a science class, as he would have it. But then..., neither should the theory of Evolution.
The best scenario the evolutionists have come up with for the origins of life require overcoming astronomical odds. It requires a runoff from the land of just the right chemicals, into an estuary to be hit by lightning and thereby incidentally create life. The problem compounds itself because this particular life form would have to be able to propagate itself. Indeed, not only would it need to propagate itself, but would have to be able to morph itself into another form which is biologically impossible due to DNA restraints.
The idea of evolutionary progression is brought into question at every front. All of the vertebrate groups, from fish to mammals appear at one time. Evolution would require thousands, if not millions of years for the original vertebrate to progress into the many vertebrate groups existing. The links between them should be scattered far and wide in the fossils. But they are not.
Much of this theory is based upon mutation. Certainly mutants are common. However, mutation does not cause major changes in life forms over thousands of years as proposed by the evolutionists. If this were true, there would be animal life fossils of particular animals without vision and others with varying degrees of eye development stretched over long periods of time, until finally some would have developed the ability to see. Such fossils do not exist. The same should be true of every organ and limb. We should be observing similar development of such things in the animals around us today.
Certainly we belong to the warm-blooded, vertebrate, mammal group. These are merely our biological attributes and do not prove a common heredity.
We cannot prove that the theory of evolution is wrong any more than the evolutionists can prove they are right. Neither can we prove that the theory of Intelligent Design is wrong or right. The fact is that neither of these is a scientific theory. They are both philosophical in nature and do not belong in a science class. Both of them require a leap of faith.
As I said, I am no fan of President Bush and I like to point it out when he is wrong. He is wrong. The theory of Intelligent Design should not be taught in a science class, as he would have it. But then..., neither should the theory of Evolution.
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