This past month, we hosted two debates on Intelligent Design. The question is, "Does the universe show intelligent design?" We had Dr. Peter March, a philosophy professor who debated that there is no intelligent design in the world and Kirk Durston, a Ph D. candidate in Biophyics (Guelph) who say there is intelligent design. It was a great time as 380 people came out to the two debates and heard arguments from both sides.
What I learned from the debate is that ID proponents are positioning themselves as a science theory that has roots in other sciences like forensics and SETI. All it wants to achieve is to come up with a method to detect design in nature. It does not make a case for God or a creator, but its findings has implications in the religous spheres.
The debate was very science driven as Durston proposed a method to detect science. March responded by talkning about the philosophical implications, i.e. that even though ID may detect design, it does prove that there is a creator or God.
This topic will continue to be a hot topic. What are you thoughts?
I'm all for Intelligent design. The probabilities of anything else are just too overwhelming.
ReplyDeleteI always think of it this way. There are three ways to call something science: 1) Observable 2) Recreatable 3) Recordable.
Neither ID or evolution can claim all three. Only ID, religiously at least, can claim recordability since genesis is a recorded history of the creation of the earth from those that were there, or were decendants of those, at the time.
Just my $0.02 worth. I'd give you a nickel's worth of free advice, but it's a wooden nickel and no one will take it.