Evolution Part 2

[moodydaniel]

I thought the 'intelligent design' argument was supposed to link God with science -- why are people still banging on about evolution?

I just though that this point could do ith a little more coverage. Creationism is the belief that God created the Earth and life as the bible tells us; i.e. approximately 6000 years ago, with all the animals seen today and in the fossil record and with all the events involved such as the global flood. It contradicts almost every aspect of modern science.

In the 90's many attempts to get creationism taught in schools as an alternative to evolutionary theory failed due to legal judgements preventing religion being taught as science.

So, the Creationists removed the references to God and produced Intelligent Design theory. A subset of creationist ideas that suggest there is scientific evidence for a creator of the world. Again this was an attempt to intorduce religious ideas to the science classroom.

The controversy arises in that the evidence produced and advocated by the ID movement is at best unscientific and worst contradicts scientific fact. It certainly should not be allowed into a science class.

Examples include;
Quote mining to suggest Darwin and other scientists believed in an Intelligent Creator
Using the banana as an example of a fruit designed for human consumption (the banana has been cultivated by man to it's present form).
Assuming conclusions and finding evidence to fit (for example, the claim fossils on mountain tops prove the Great Flood, ignoring plate tetonics).

Intelligent design does not reconcile God and science, it's a hammer that tried to force biblical accounts of creation into science and opposes established scientific theory and fact wherever it disagrees with a narrow, fundamentalist Christian view of the world. It's intellectual fraud at its worst, not least of which because it's specifically aimed at spreading its lies to children.