dunkel said:Well that clears that up, thanks.
That doesn't, but what followed ought to have.
Evolution doesn't say one way or the other whether God exists. All it does is try explain how life has developed over the years. Just because it doesn't specifically allow for God doesn't mean it denies God. In fact, it has nothing to do with God at all. You say it presupposes no God, which is attributing to it something that it actually says nothing about. It's like saying it presupposes that Dunkel didn't have anything to do with it. It doesn't say "there is no God", but it also doesn't say "there is a God". It only concerns itself with we can see in the natural world. ID does not do this. ID starts with the assumption that there is a God or some other "higher being" or "higher intelligence" or whatever you want to call it. You can't test for it, you can't observe it, you can't do anything except say "it's there".
The Deists' God may be compatible with evolution, but a personal, Creator God is ruled out. Evolution absolutely does have theological ramifications. It says something about the kind of God that can and cannot exist. It claims to be "neutral" about God, but it cannot be. The very concept of neutrality is, in fact, a fallacy.
You're attributing something to me that you can't back up. I'm not defending the validity of evolution. I don't now which of the many theories are correct. All I'm saying is that these scientific theories are doing the best that they can with the information that they have. They look at the world and say "this is the best idea we can come up with". They don't come across something they can't explain, throw their hands up and say, "God made it that way".
I didn't say that you were defending evolution. You are, though, defending the fallacy that evolution is (or even can be) theologically/philosophically neutral.
Calling science a "faith" is an old, old way to attack it. Trying to show that science is no better because, hey, it's just "faith" in a different God. Showing that it is simply a way of rebelling against God or some other nonsense. Yes, science has to make assumptions and has to work within a framework, but the difference is that if those assumptions are proven wrong or the framework is proven unworkable, science can create new ones. Religion can't...if you're proven wrong about some pseudo-scientific explanation for Intelligent Design or Creationism, you go back to your original assumptions and try finding different evidence. The framework never changes, despite any setbacks it might suffer.
The evolutionary framework never changes, despite any setbacks it might (and repeatedly does) suffer. There is no "proof" of (macro) evolution whatsoever. Only a paradigmatic framework with which to work.
SETI is not a theory. It expressely states that it is, duh, a Search for Extra Terrestial Intelligence. And, no, ID is not about testing supernatural beings, because, being supernatural, they can't be tested, can they? At least not with the natural tools that we have. ID is about assuming that there is something supernatural out there and going from there. It is a positive assumption, not an assumption by omission, which would be a more accurate description of evolution.
But what SETI is looking for is non-random signals which would, for them, indicate intelligent life. The existence of intelligent life outside of Earth would then become a theory. Intelligent Design is based on the same assumption. Evidence of intelligence in the design of various species (which already exists) leads to the theory of intelligent design. ID theorists aren't like SETI scientists looking for signs of intelligence. The signs are already there.
Yeah, that's why I've been mentioning them both. But they are both based on religious principles. Educate yourself...the ID movement grew out of the Creationist movement when some of them figured they'd be taken more seriously if they espoused their beliefs in more "scientific" trappings.
And, no, I don't buy into any propogana...secular or religious. Obviously you do. That's fine, I'm not here to judge![]()
Yes of course, I keep forgetting. You're just being "neutral."
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