WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is Intelligent Design (ID) Actually Science?
(6:28 WATCH) — You are walking along on Pennsylvania Avenue SE heading to the shops and bars at noon when you look down, fortunately just in time to avoid stepping on a beautiful watch lying there.
Somebody must have dropped it, so that explains how it got there. But how did it come to be? There are only two possible answers: Either the watch has always existed, or it had a beginning.
Three Reasons ID is Science (Screenshot from YouTube).
There is zero evidence for the former possibility, but there is a logical deduction from the latter — the watch came into existence at some point in the past when the watchmaker assembled it.
Put simply, the beauty and complexity of the watch doesn’t “just happen,” somebody, let’s call him or her the “watchmaker,” is required to understand the functions and sequence of assembly for the hundreds of parts that together create a watch.
In other words, we don’t get watches without watchmakers. The form and function of the watch is it’s design, design requires will, which means there must be a decision-maker exercising will. The result is the watch.
That’s a simple illustration of what is more popularly known as Intelligent Design (ID). The evidence for ID is literally everywhere we look, but is ID science? Folks who say the only way to discover truth is the scientific method, but that’s not ID, they insist.
Well, you probably will want to think again after watching the following edition of the Colson Center’s “What Would You Say?” video series: