...or what you will. Intelligent Design, or ID, is a heresy perfectly evolved to fit into the late 20th and early 21st century. It has the external carapace of science, allowing it entry into academia, yet its proponents have the wings of believers, allowing it entry into religious groups. In both areas it is parasitic and harmful. ID is a perversion of religious doctrine, warped by a pseudo-scientific jargon and pedalled on the street corner near schools where there are innocent minds.
I saw: http://www.reason.com/news/show/127549.html
Debating evolution and intelligent design at FreedomFest 2008
Let me begin by acknowledging that the Discovery Institute website states: "Unlike creationism, the scientific theory of intelligent design is agnostic regarding the source of design and has no commitment to defending Genesis, the Bible or any other sacred text." So far so good.
If ID were not agnostic, it would be idolatrous polytheism, setting up more than one divine being. If ID is agnostic, it is another claim that agnosticism is an acceptable attitude, which I deny.
Agnosticism is the spiritual equivalent of Depression. In short, either ID is pernicious to religion, or it is an unwanted intruder into science, whose intrusion must be justified by an emphasis on the validity of the ignorance of the Holy. Only in America could such nonsense pass for science, religion, or even pseudo-science. Never forget that it was in America that Eugenics made its unholy entrance into the world, and certain people in Germany learned its doctrines from us. Freedom of Speech and Thought without any clue to the moral law is fraught with peril.
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I believe this quest to be ultimately self-defeating behavior; it is a manner of acting which forever moves the goal further away from you, not closer.
The quest appears to be an obsession for a strong proof, because our faith is too weak; it is a reflection of our age's curious desire to have God explain the world; it is a slavery to the scientific way of thought; it is a subservience to the 20th and 21st century stereotype of man as a Consumer to be studied by Science and explained by Economics.
I reject this religion. It is the religion of children who danced around the totem of the Lord of the Flies.
It is the wolf in sheeps' clothing, and it will kill those whom it touches by delivering them into a barren wasteland of material speculation.
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