Sunday, 22 April 2007

doneby: XianMin

Theistic Evolution


Theistic evolution, less commonly known as evolutionary creationism, is a general opinion that the classical teachings of god and the scientific explanation of Evolution need not be contradictory;Theistic evolution is not a theory in the scientific sense, but a particular view about how the science of evolution relates to some religious interpretations. Theistic Evolutionists vary in beliefs about how much God intervenes in the process. The vast majority of Christians have no problem with this concept; it seems to be rejected mostly by another group of Christians who interprets the Bible word for word, in an extremely literal way (Young Earth creationists). Theistic evolution accepts most or all of modern science, but it invokes God for some things outside the realm of science, such as the creation of the human soul. This position is promoted by the Pope and taught at mainline Protestant seminaries. Stating that there is actually no such active subject present as nature or evolution, he claims that that nature has no existence independent of His will.


Intelligent Design



Intelligent design is a theory that comes under the concept of Theistic Evolution as they unite in the belief that the theory of evolution and the classical teachings of god can coexist. It is the proposition that certain features of the universe and living organisms can be better explained by an intelligent cause and not by natural selection, as discovered by Charles Darwin. It argues that some forms of life are too complex to have evolved randomly, as Charles Darwin proposed in his 1859 book "The Origin of Species. The nature and the identity of the designer are not described (unlike Young Earth creationism and Old Earth creationism, in which God is the creator). However, the primary opponents of intelligent design believe the designer to be God. Their argument is that evolution had a rationality that the theory of purely random selection could not explain. Evolution’s high level of rationality, (despite some mistakes and confusion in the process and finally choosing positive mutations), leads to a question beyond the realm of science of where the rationality came from—God, in their belief.



Response from the Scientific Community:
The scientific community is not receptive to the intelligent design theory. Scientists denounce this as a disguised form of creationism, the view that God created the world just as the Bible says. The National Science Teachers Association and others have termed it pseudoscience, and some have termed it junk science. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences has stated that intelligent design "and other claims of supernatural intervention in the origin of life" are not science because they cannot be tested by experiment, do not generate any predictions, and propose no new hypotheses of their own. According to the scientific community, intelligent design is just created to explain the unexplained, which to scientists, does not mean unexplainable.

Posted by evolutionrocks at 04:27