Posted by
Bob Siegel on Monday, May 12, 2008 6:52:24 PM
The debate over Intelligent Design is not going to be settled anytime
soon. Although I am convinced that nature does point to some kind of
intelligent design, others are not so convinced. This is fine. People
are entitled to their opinions. Let the debate continue.
Which leads us to the real problem today: Many do not want a debate.
For some reason, they feel classrooms are meant for one view and one
view only. Debates threaten them. Not that they'll admit to being
threatened. Instead, they will say the subject of God is a religious
subject, appropriate for church but not a science class. Supposedly,
"God" is all about blind faith.
I believe people are missing the point. If God exists (and I did say if)
then He is a REAL entity and He is involved with the rest of reality.
He, and the universe He created, constitute reality. Isn't science
supposed to be studying reality? The purpose of science is not to
merely repeat facts, but to also search for facts. If not for this
search, if not for theories being put forth and defended or challenged,
we would have no scientific data at all. If some scientists see
evidence for a creator and they feel they can defend this evidence
through empirical data, rather than blind faith, why should they be
denied opportunity to do so? I'll tell you why. People are
assuming from that onset that God does not exist and of course, there
is no way they can be certain of this as an actual established
fact. If they were less arrogant, if they were less sure of their
unchecked position, if they were more open, then the question of God
would be a legitimate, scientific question. In other words, if they could lay aside their faith, we could have a real discussion.
People love to talk about the days when Evolution was a forbidden
subject in our Puritanistic, old fashioned, narrow minded schools.
Well, who is being narrow minded now?
I say, let the debate go on. If proponents of Intelligent Design are
really so foolish, they should be easy to disprove. Why do people feel
they need to resort to censorship, the very tactics they renounced when
Evolution was forbidden?
This is Bob Siegel, making the obvious, obvious.
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