WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is Intelligent Design Science or Religion?
(SEVEN-MINUTE WATCH) — It may be the most frequently heard objection to the Intelligent Design (ID) school of thought regarding the origin of the universe and of life on this Earth – “ID is not science, it’s religion masquerading as science.” That objection is often offered along with another closely related one – “ID is ‘God of the Gaps’ Stuff.”
Religion masquerading as science? (Screenshot from YouTube).
Put in its most simple and basic terms, ID is an inference from an abundance of evidence about the origin of life and the universe.
A variation here is that watches don’t just happen by accident, they require a watchmaker, or a purposeful, intelligent creator. Put another way, information is never accidental, it is purposeful and designed.
Even so, ID remains persona non grata throughout much of the scientific and academic establishments. And evolution remains absolutely verboten in many religious communities.
And that shouldn’t surprise us because, after all, when you assume something cannot possibly be true before you begin to examine the evidence, odds are good you will conclude that something cannot possibly explain the existence of anything.
In the following 6:28 video, the latest of the “What Would You Say?” productions by the Colson Center, identifies the presuppositions that characterize IDs critics, especially among orthodox Darwinian evolutionists, and explains why ID offers an absolutely reasonable, scientific and logic-based alternative explanation:
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FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Rev. Jonathan Mayhew on Faith and Liberty
It’s miraculous. The fossil record is a grave-yard, a bone-yard of death, not an evidence for a sudden explosion of life. Faith is always required, including for the religion of science.