Currently Reading Nigger : An Autobiography By Dick Gregory see related

Well this has been a hell of a week so far. Just finished a three page essay from scratch. Had to look all over the 'net for examples for a Jimmy Carter essay.

It also looks like I might have lost a friend today.

Hopefully he will think about what I said if he reads this.

Oh, a thought came to me the other day. It was about Intelligent design. I've heard many religious people (conservatives) have been backing it as an alternative to Darwin's Theory of evolution. Now, being an agnostic, my first thought was that Intelligent design was creationism in a cheap suit. I got rid of that, thinking that it IS possible that the universe was created by some intelligent being. But then I also started thinking, is it possible to prove this theory with the scientific method? Of course, any theory is plausible, as long as it can be proven with that method. I was wondering how they would do that, and I decided that they would find out eventually. But it didn't feel right. I wasn't satisfied with that answer. Something felt wrong about why conservatives would advocate the intelligent design theory. A flaw in their arguments that I couldn't recognize at the moment at the moment. And then it struck me. The people who advocate intelligent design (ID) argue that the complexities of the universe are so because an intelligent being designed it. Possible, yes. It would take an incredibly intelligent being to create such a thing. But our universe has design problems. Everywhere. Life on this planet is at such great risk of a cataclysmic end that it is amazing we have come this far. Black holes, large solar flares, world killing meteorites, the sun's finite life, etc. Obviously, this universe is heavily flawed. And since it is flawed, then whoever created this universe has to have had had a limit to its intelligence. According to the Bible, I'm sure, God is ALL-KNOWING and PERFECT. Based on the ID theory, this means that logically, an imperfect universe is the result of an imperfect God. God is supposedly perfect. Why would God make mistakes? The answer is, only if God was imperfect. Therefore, Intelligent Design, a theory created by conservatives, essentially undermines their beliefs. ID basically disproves the Bible. By advocating it, they are killing their own faith (laughs).  

Well, its just a thought.

'till next time

Sayonara