Some rather mundane thoughts on intelligent design

I have listened to the criticisms arrayed against intelligent design (ID) and have given them some thought. The two primary complaints against ID are thus: one, ID is merely a slick repackaging of creationism, and two, ID is built on the ‘god-of-the-gaps’ argument.

First, creationism, be it ‘scientific’ or not, is primarily an issue of biblical hermeneutics. Creationism starts and ends with the first eleven chapters of Genesis. I am not making a statement about the veracity of the biblical account of creationism. What I am inferring, to reiterate, is that creationism is wed to one interpretation of the biblical creation narrative. In contrast, ID is divorced from any text of antiquity.

More thoughts on origins…..

Natural selection requires a breeding population in order to weed out the weak. Think of the implication of that statement in regards to how it impacts the development of more sophisticated multi-celled life forms from so-called simple, asexually reproducing one-celled life forms. Think, now, of the biological requirements for sexual reproduction.

Some thoughts on origins…..

I leached the following from another of my rather lame websites……I plagiarize myself………….

When I was a child of elementary-school age, my thoughts were, I believe, sometimes different from those of my peers. I remember thinking about nothingness; I tried to wrap my weird little mind around this abstraction, but could not quite get the cerebral ‘fingers’ of my left and right brain to reach far enough around this curious concept to touch. I attempted to imagine a ‘universeless reality’, a void with no time, space, matter, or energy. Reality, or more appropriately the lack of, would then be less than black and empty. I think that I should now conclude reminiscing over my prepubescent mental gymnastics.

Where this train of thought leads, in the final analysis, is to the question of why there is something here rather than nothing. The options are thus: The universe either created itself, or is infinite in age, or was bought into existence by some Entity greater than the universe. Drilling down a bit further, the question becomes, “Is there a God?”