Time Magazine came out with another subtle attack on Christian beliefs in their piece on faith and scientific progress, it is a radical condemnation of God-centered religion. The anti-religion position is being promoted with increasing insistence by scientists troubled by intelligent design and excited by their disciplines' increasing ability to map, quantify and change the nature of human experience. They have become so intelligent with the help of technology that they dont need God anymore and have started a war against him in any form such as intelligent design. The theory of intelligent design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection. Scientist dont like it as it cannot be quantified and probed in the manner they are used to.
Positive evidence of design in living systems consists of the semantic, meaningful or functional nature of biological information, the lack of any known law that can explain the sequence of symbols that carry the "messages," and statistical and experimental evidence that tends to rule out chance as a plausible explanation. Other evidence challenges the adequacy of natural or material causes to explain both the origin and diversity of life.
Intelligent design is controversial because of the implications of its evidence, rather than the significant weight of its evidence. Intelligent design proponents believe science should be conducted objectively, without regard to the implications of its findings. This is particularly necessary in origins science because of its historical (and thus very subjective) nature, and because it is a science that unavoidably impacts religion.
Intelligent design is presented as an alternative to natural explanations for evolution. This stands in opposition to conventional biological science, which relies on experimentation to explain the natural world through observed physical processes such as mutation and natural selection.
Scientitst against intelligent design point to advances like brain imaging that illustrates the physical seat of the will and the passions, challenging the religious concept of a soul independent of glands and gristle. Brain chemists track imbalances that could account for the ecstatic states of visionary saints or of Jesus. Religion has been cast off and technology has become the new Bible leading the way.
They have become their own religion, Catholicism's Christoph Cardinal Schönborn has dubbed the most fervent of faith-challenging scientists as followers of "scientism" or "evolutionism," since they hope science, beyond being a measure, can replace religion as a worldview.
It is not an epithet that fits everyone wielding a test tube. But a growing proportion of the profession is experiencing what one major researcher calls "outrage" at perceived insults to research and rationality, ranging from the alleged influence of the Christian right on science policy, to the fanatic faith of Muslims, to intelligent design's ongoing claims. Some are radicalized enough to publicly pick on the idea that science and religion, far from being complementary responses to the unknown, are at complete odds.
Scientist and atheist Richard Dawkins, has just come out with a book called "The God Delusion", the rare volume whose position is very clear as to where it stands. His book attacks faith philosophically and historically as well as scientifically, but leans heavily on Darwinian theory, which is Dawkins' expertise and as an explicator of evolutionary psychology.
Dawkins and his peers have many theological opponents, the most ardent of these have issues with his science, and an argument in which one party stands immovable on Scripture and the other immobile on the periodic table, and foremost among them is Francis Collins. Collins' devotion to genetics is, if possible, greater than Dawkins'.
Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute since 1993, he headed a multinational 2,400-scientist team that co-mapped the 3 billion biochemical letters of our genetic blueprint, a milestone that then-President Bill Clinton honored in a 2000 White House ceremony. Collins continues to lead his institute in studying the genome and mining it for medical breakthroughs.
He is also a forthright Christian who converted from atheism at age 27 and now finds time to advise young evangelical scientists on how to declare their faith in science's largely agnostic upper reaches.
His summer best seller, "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief", laid out some of the arguments he brought out and some excerpts are featured in Time's story.
Intelligent design proponents say that while evidence pointing to the nature of an "intelligent cause or agent" may not be directly observable, its effects on nature can be detected. Proponents of intelligent design regard it as a scientific research program that investigates the effects of intelligent causes. Intelligent design studies the effects of intelligent causes and not intelligent causes per se. One cannot test for the identity of influences exterior to a closed system from within, so questions concerning the identity of a designer fall outside the realm of the concept.
The introduction of intelligent design makes the theory of evelotion a choice now instead of the only idea on creation. Why scientist and evolutionists fight against it, can't they allow for other ideas to exist or are they the new abitrators of truth. It seems that if they are not allow to control "truth" as they see it then they attack it to destroy it before it shows them to be just small minded pretentious defenders of evolution. Intelligent design must be debated and presented as a alternative and allow new students of the sciences make up their own minds as to what is truth and what is theory.
We must allow our minds to encompass all of the wonders of the vast universe and not let the mind police of these so called scientist and evolutionist shut us out of the full spectrum of truth so they can protect their shallow minded theories.
Positive evidence of design in living systems consists of the semantic, meaningful or functional nature of biological information, the lack of any known law that can explain the sequence of symbols that carry the "messages," and statistical and experimental evidence that tends to rule out chance as a plausible explanation. Other evidence challenges the adequacy of natural or material causes to explain both the origin and diversity of life.
Intelligent design is controversial because of the implications of its evidence, rather than the significant weight of its evidence. Intelligent design proponents believe science should be conducted objectively, without regard to the implications of its findings. This is particularly necessary in origins science because of its historical (and thus very subjective) nature, and because it is a science that unavoidably impacts religion.
Intelligent design is presented as an alternative to natural explanations for evolution. This stands in opposition to conventional biological science, which relies on experimentation to explain the natural world through observed physical processes such as mutation and natural selection.
Scientitst against intelligent design point to advances like brain imaging that illustrates the physical seat of the will and the passions, challenging the religious concept of a soul independent of glands and gristle. Brain chemists track imbalances that could account for the ecstatic states of visionary saints or of Jesus. Religion has been cast off and technology has become the new Bible leading the way.
They have become their own religion, Catholicism's Christoph Cardinal Schönborn has dubbed the most fervent of faith-challenging scientists as followers of "scientism" or "evolutionism," since they hope science, beyond being a measure, can replace religion as a worldview.
It is not an epithet that fits everyone wielding a test tube. But a growing proportion of the profession is experiencing what one major researcher calls "outrage" at perceived insults to research and rationality, ranging from the alleged influence of the Christian right on science policy, to the fanatic faith of Muslims, to intelligent design's ongoing claims. Some are radicalized enough to publicly pick on the idea that science and religion, far from being complementary responses to the unknown, are at complete odds.
Scientist and atheist Richard Dawkins, has just come out with a book called "The God Delusion", the rare volume whose position is very clear as to where it stands. His book attacks faith philosophically and historically as well as scientifically, but leans heavily on Darwinian theory, which is Dawkins' expertise and as an explicator of evolutionary psychology.
Dawkins and his peers have many theological opponents, the most ardent of these have issues with his science, and an argument in which one party stands immovable on Scripture and the other immobile on the periodic table, and foremost among them is Francis Collins. Collins' devotion to genetics is, if possible, greater than Dawkins'.
Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute since 1993, he headed a multinational 2,400-scientist team that co-mapped the 3 billion biochemical letters of our genetic blueprint, a milestone that then-President Bill Clinton honored in a 2000 White House ceremony. Collins continues to lead his institute in studying the genome and mining it for medical breakthroughs.
He is also a forthright Christian who converted from atheism at age 27 and now finds time to advise young evangelical scientists on how to declare their faith in science's largely agnostic upper reaches.
His summer best seller, "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief", laid out some of the arguments he brought out and some excerpts are featured in Time's story.
Intelligent design proponents say that while evidence pointing to the nature of an "intelligent cause or agent" may not be directly observable, its effects on nature can be detected. Proponents of intelligent design regard it as a scientific research program that investigates the effects of intelligent causes. Intelligent design studies the effects of intelligent causes and not intelligent causes per se. One cannot test for the identity of influences exterior to a closed system from within, so questions concerning the identity of a designer fall outside the realm of the concept.
The introduction of intelligent design makes the theory of evelotion a choice now instead of the only idea on creation. Why scientist and evolutionists fight against it, can't they allow for other ideas to exist or are they the new abitrators of truth. It seems that if they are not allow to control "truth" as they see it then they attack it to destroy it before it shows them to be just small minded pretentious defenders of evolution. Intelligent design must be debated and presented as a alternative and allow new students of the sciences make up their own minds as to what is truth and what is theory.
We must allow our minds to encompass all of the wonders of the vast universe and not let the mind police of these so called scientist and evolutionist shut us out of the full spectrum of truth so they can protect their shallow minded theories.
