Saturday, January 21, 2006
Intelligent Design
Intelligent Design
The teaching of intelligent design in public schools was recently struck down as unconstitutional by a liberal Pennsylvania Federal District Court. Nonetheless, there is ample evidence for intelligent design and creationism as opposed to macroevolution. Intelligent Design as a concept presupposes a first cause for all things in the universe, namely God. There are many dimensions of science, which is supposed against special creation that are conveniently dismissed by secular humanist ideologues. Whether one approaches it from the life sciences or from physics, one is amazed that there are innumerable evidences for intelligent design.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics alone throws a monkeywrench in macroevolution. Everything has been in a state of entropy since the fall of man. Likewise, the attendant concept of irreducible complexity was popularized by Lehigh University biochemist and Fellow of the Discovery Institute Michael Behe in his 1996 book Darwin's Black Box. Therein, Behe argued that there are biochemical systems in living organisms are "irreducibly complex" and there is no demonstrable way in which these systems could be broken down into smaller functioning systems. I read Behe's book in 2001 and was persuaded. The idea of macroevolution, and its attendant theory of punctuated equilibrium is unteable. It basically posits continuous evolutionary movement, with prolonged periods of virtual standstill ("equilibrium"), "punctuated" by episodes of very fast development of new life forms. Do you realize that if one enzyme in our body is not present than entire organ systems may collapse, and life would cease for the organism? The irreducible complexity of living organisms makes macroevolution untenable.
God, the creator, manifests himself in his creation of the universe and the life therein. I've joked with an atheist before that "I am not smart enough to be an atheist." But in frankness, seeing this beautiful creation, and attributing it to accident is as prideful as it is stupid. Nothing happens by chance. I'd be happy to provide a reading list of books which makes the case for creationism and intelligent design.
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