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poliphiloI've been on a message board where Darwinists and Creationists were slugging it out. Ouch, ouch, ouch!
Such dogmatism- on both sides. But, as one of the posters pointed out, Darwinism is a scientific theory and Intelligent Design is a philosophical theory. They belong in different disciplines.
It's as if one team turned up for the match in football strip and the other team in cricket whites.
Such dogmatism- on both sides. But, as one of the posters pointed out, Darwinism is a scientific theory and Intelligent Design is a philosophical theory. They belong in different disciplines.
It's as if one team turned up for the match in football strip and the other team in cricket whites.
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Date: 2006-12-13 06:12 pm (UTC)They like to *claim* that it has as much scientific evidence behind it, but it doesn't. According to the standards of science--that an idea has to be testable, and then stand up to *repeated* testing--Intelligent Design simply falls flat.
But like you, I don't see why science and religion have to be mutually exclusive. The existence of evolution in no way negates the existence of God. Nor does evolution answer all of the questions that religion tries to answer.
Many scientists, including Darwin himself, are very religious. The only thing that evolution negates is a completely literal translation of the Bible.