Even Intelligent Design Requires Evolution
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 14:00
in Astronomy & Space
Intelligent Design is often presented as a view that runs counter to evolutionary theory. Whether it be the concept of natural selection or ideas about speciation, Intelligent Design (ID) purports to reconcile the observed environment from the perspective of an intelligent ordering system.Concepts like "irreducible complexity" to examples of finding a watch or a tornado spontaneously assembling a 747 in a junkyard. All these images are invoked by Intelligent Design as an argument against evolution.The theory of intelligent design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection. read more