What Is Intelligent Design? — Science and God
Chances are if you’ve heard anything about intelligent design, you’ve heard that it’s faith-based, not science-based. Is that true? Or does modern science, in fact, point us in the direction of a designing intelligence?
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Chances are if you’ve heard anything about intelligent design, you’ve heard that it’s a “faith-based,” not a “science-based” idea. Or maybe you’ve even heard it’s “religion masquerading as science.”
Is that true?
Well, why don’t you decide?
According to evolutionary biologists such as Richard Dawkins of Oxford University, living systems “give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.” But that appearance is merely an illusion.
Why?
Well, according to Dawkins and his followers, undirected processes such as natural selection and random mutations can produce the intricate design-like structures in living systems. In their view, natural selection can mimic the powers of a designing intelligence without being guided or directed in any way.
In contrast, the proponents of intelligent design argue there are tell-tale features of living systems and the universe that are best explained by a designing intelligence.
So what tell-tale signs of intelligence are we talking about?
There are many. But let’s focus here on just one—the digital code stored in the DNA molecule.
In 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick mapped out the structure of the DNA molecule. Along the interior of their famed double helix, they discovered a four-character code at work.
They soon realized that sequences of precisely positioned chemicals called “nucleotide bases” store and transmit the assembly instructions—the information—for building the crucial protein molecules that cells need to survive. No protein molecules, no life.
Crick later proposed that the chemical constituents in DNA function like letters in a written language or digital symbols in a computer code.
Just as a well-functioning computer code depends upon precise sequences of zeros and ones, so too does the function of the DNA molecule depend upon the specific arrangement of chemical bases along the spine of the double helix.
Famed biotech specialist Leroy Hood describes the information stored in DNA as “digital code.” Even Richard Dawkins has acknowledged, “the machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like.”
But where did this information, this digital code, come from? Today this question lies at the heart of a great scientific mystery: the mystery of the origin of life.
Building a living cell requires many proteins. And building proteins requires genetic information in DNA or some other equivalent molecule.
Yet to date no theory of undirected chemical evolution can explain the origin of the digital information needed to build the first living cell from simpler non-living chemicals—in other words, the problem of getting life from non-life.
Why is this a problem? There is simply too much information in the cell to be explained by chance alone. The probability of generating a section of DNA code capable of building just one functional protein by chance is vanishingly small, even taking into account the multi-billion-year history of the universe. And even the simplest living cells require hundreds of proteins.
Thus, the “given enough time anything is possible” argument no longer works. Origin of life researchers agree: the chance hypothesis has failed.
Chemistry doesn’t help us, either. Unlike basic chemical compounds, like a crystal of salt, the chemical letters in the DNA message do not arrange themselves as a result of mutual attraction.
Saying otherwise would be like saying that the message in a newspaper headline could spontaneously emerge because of the way that ink sticks to paper. Clearly “something else” is at work. In this case, a newspaper editor.
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Redo with less makeup and I guarantee this becomes much more believable.
Ridiculous pseudoscientific drivel. I'm a science teacher, and I'm so pleased that my superintendent has basically said NOT to ever show videos like this in my classroom. Of course, I wouldn't anyway.
are mutations, that sometimes have catastrophic consequences, part of this intelligent design?
If intelligent design was true, then mass extinction should never occur due to everything being designed to survive whatever is thrown their way. That's what an intelligent designer would do. It also means there would be no variance in species, as an intelligent designer would make sure all creations survive the largest possible severity of hardship, which means reusing the same design
Edit: how the hell does this guy have a doctorate? DNA is not computer code, it is chemicals that react in specific ways (I'm a computer scientist, not a biologist or chemist). Then he goes to the bloody watchmaker fallacy. The reason we know code is designed is because we know programmers exist. We can't make the same inference about an intelligent designer because we have no knowledge of their existence beforehand
Intelligent design is a hack idea. A child’s imagination at best.
Look. Intelligent Design is fine as a belief system. It isn't a scientific theory. It came to be as a method to push creationism without it seeming to be religious. It was designed, as an ideology, to infiltrate education. But set that aside. If you believe that life was initially designed by an intelligent designer, or that all along, an intelligent designer has been guiding the processes that we have discovered actually drive evolution, then great. You have beliefs. Those beliefs are not part of the science. Not at all. They can be pretty distanced from a particular religion, though, if that makes you feel better. In other words, you can certainly find an agnostic intelligent design ideology more convincing than, say, a particular religion. Again, great for you.
But Intelligent Design isn't science. Not by a long shot. There is a reason that when constrained in a court of law to the facts and logic, Intelligent Design was incapable of meeting the rigor of science. There is a reason that when constrained by real peer review in actual scientific publications, Intelligent Design goes nowhere. It isn't a conspiracy. It's the reality. The only place that Intelligent Design has a chance is in presentations by the deluded/deceptive to captive audiences that are not equipped to ask the questions that would expose it for what it is.
This video cherry picks quotes and misrepresents them. Why? If Intelligent Design was real science, all you would need to do is show the real evidence. Just because someone looked at a thing and said, "Wow, that looks complicated. God must have done it." – that doesn't mean that they have engaged in science. Quite the opposite.
To me, the Intelligent Design movement is indicative of weak faith. When new facts are discovered that contradict a faith, and that faith can't accommodate those facts, the correct response is to leave that faith. If a faith is good for you, it will not demand of you that you ignore fact and embrace falsehood. If your faith can't adjust to the facts, that is the problem. The facts do not adjust to faiths.
Intelligent Design Is Science
Intelligent Design Is not Religion!
It has nothing to do with the Worship of the Imaginary Mythical Fantasy Gods that Religions worship.
The Great Creator is not one of those Fantasy Gods.
Science Lacks Understanding The Spirit Energy Source.
The Great Designer and Creator, Matter, Knowledge, Energy, Time and Space Has Always Existed. All are Without Beginning or end. Beginning and End only reveals an absence.
'Intelligent Design Begins With The Universe'
Creation is only the rearrangement of matter as Existence and Matter does not evolve from nothing.
Though Science Lacks The Understanding of The Spirit Energy Source. Science has been using The Spirit Energy Source for Many years. As that is where knowledge is found.
The Great Creator is far more Massive and complex than the God worshipers realize and understand.
The Great Creator is not a being somewhere in space.
The Great Creator is a huge mass of spirits in perfect unity. And with the same care and respect for each another.
Gods Are Imaginary Personages Of Worship
Gods are not creators. There are Hundreds of Gods that the human has worshipped.
Words to the honest and wise: honesty and understanding is the only true belief. Without honesty and understanding we do not know what to believe.
To accept other’s opinion of the truth without proving it to yourself; it is being deceived it is not believing.
We must understand to believe.
Until Next time: Sweet Dreams: Truth will solve all our problems before we create them; and ignore or reject the truth; problems will multiply all by themselves; those problems will need no help.
Have a great and a meaningful life if it is at all possible.
Just whispers, of the Spirit of Reality.
Prueben debatir este tema con Chat GPT. GPT es pro Darwinian.
I love how the same people who say God is a fairy tale also believe in aliens.
Prager "university", which doesn't hold any classes or grant diplomas, appears to be censoring comments to push a political, religious, social agenda. I did debunk each of @shadowandreality's points (in the thread starting with: @farrex0 "You seem to grossly misunderstand how probability works"), but apparently the moderator at this so-called "university" is too afraid of the truth to allow open, honest discussion, like a real university. It's ironic because of the 2017 court case where prager sued youtube for flagging some of their videos, but now refuses to allow open discussion.
Great informative video! Several years ago I had thoroughly looked into all of the biggest claims that Intelligent Design has been "debunked" (by Kenneth Miller, etc), and only ended up finding my confidence in the theory to grow even STRONGER in the end!! Sadly, from what I can see in some of the comments section, some people have STILL not bothered learning about the very well articulated responses from I.D. proponents, to the most common objections against Intelligent Design! Worse yet, some have not even moved beyond the 'god of the gaps' accusation, or the 'that's just religion' assertion.
I believe in intelligent design the galaxy is to complex for there not to be.
The Origins of the Intelligent Design movement
"Our strategy has been to change the subject so that we can get the issue of intelligent design – which really means the reality of God's creation – before the academic world and into the schools. This isn't really, and never has been a debate about science or the truth. It's about winning at any cost, and affirming the reality of the God of The Christian Bible, by challenging the domination of materialism and naturalism in the academic arena. With the assistance of many friends I have developed a strategy for doing this which we call "The wedge". But remember, we must avoid debating the Bible and the Book of Genesis at all costs because we do not want to raise the obvious Bible-science dichotomy. Our goal is, "how to win". Phrase the pseudoscience argument in such a way that you can get it heard in secular academia and in a way that tends to unify other science illiterates religious fence-sitters. You must also avoid getting sidetracked onto other issues (like empirical evidence) which our intellectual superiors people are always trying to do." –
Phillip E Johnson – the father of the ID/creation-science movement
Conclusion: Creationists/ID fans are dishonest cowards
A spy classified at birth is YouTube song like a G6. The antichrist is a powerless spy and not a world leader. Their is no chance their horrible prophecy will happen. It's already too late for that.:-[
With a television you don't have to be supernatural. God prefer that because it's more social but we have to use it correctly. Right now we have anarchy blindness. Despite the anarchy blindness I figured it out. That proves we can be God like. Only a person getting crucified would suspect something greater. They crucified me with exact same disease that in pink Floyd the wall. Victor said it's all good. It should be possible to make everything all good.:-
Intelligent design is a poor attempt by theists to try and prove god. I don't buy it for one minute because the leprechaun at the bottom of my garden told me he created the earth and everything on it. He has never lied to me before so I have no reason to disbelieve him. This means even if you could prove intelligent design it still does not prove god. If you took the time to learn about evolution you would realise it is the more likely way life developed and all the available evidence supports it. This which is why 97% of the scientific community supports evolution and only a very small percentage of the religious community believe your Abrahamic god created everything.
Stephen Meyer is lying. ANY biology class at ANY university (not Prager U, which isn't a university) will teach that life under the right conditions could indeed spontaneously come into existence. You could, in fact, just read the work of the aforementioned Richard Dawkins himself who (surprise surprise!) is an evolutionary biologist.
Intelligent Design is only science if it asks, and has some way to validate the answers to, all the questions that science would ask.
The very concept of intelligence in design implies purpose / intent. And since an intelligent agent is a fundamental tenet of the ID hypothesis, then every question about the nature and purpose of that agent is fair game. If any of those questions is placed beyond scientific inquiry, then it's no longer science.
What Is True Science?
True Science is the studies and understanding of the Great Creator and the Great Creator's Great Creation.
Knowledge Understanding and Life is all of the Spirit Energy Source.
Life is much more than Intelligent Design. It takes spirit also for Life.
Spirit is similar to Electricity.
You create a car with all the great Intelligent Design and with out Electricity it will not operate. And without Spirit there is no life.
Nothing Can Survive Singular
It is only in a huge Complex Mass form can anything survive and succeed.
The Great Creator and the Spirit Energy Source,
It Is Science, it is not Religion. Religion is Fantasy.
The Great Designer and Creator, The spirit Energy Source, Matter, Knowledge, Energy, Time and Space Has Always Existed. All are Without Beginning or end. Beginning and End only reveals an absence.
However the Universe did have a beginning. It is a very complex and Intelligent Designed. And the Universe is very old.
Creation is only the rearrangement of matter as Matter does not evolve from nothing.
Truth is All That Truly Exists
Other Than Truth there is Just The understood Concept of An Absence. Lies with intent to deceive or not is fantasy. Lies remain in the nonexistent realm.
Nothing is created without Intelligent Design.
Your cell phone did not grow on a tree. And you did not create yourself.
The Great Creator is far more Massive and complex than the God worshipers realize and understand.
The Great Creator is not a being somewhere in space.
The Great Creator is a huge mass of spirits in perfect unity. And with the same care and love for each another.
It is the complex intelligent design of creation of the Universe Where in we Live That truly helps us to understand the Intelligent Design of Life.
The Universe was Designed for life on this Earth.
Love and Care for All Other as You Would Like to be Loved and Cared for. It is the basic of Justice. It is the only success for humanity.
Truth is not freedom. Truth has absolute boundaries'. Justice comes only by the truth.
Freedom has absolutely no boundaries', freedom is chaos.
Gods Are Imaginary Personages Of Worship
Gods are not creators. There are Hundreds of Gods that the human has worshipped.
Fathers are not creators. It takes both father and Mother to create a child and the mother has more to do with the creation than does the father. The child is attached to the mother for nine months receiving nutriments for the creation.
Religion has refused to give Honest respect to the female. And they have exalted the male, with the Lie that the Father is the creator of the child.
Science Lacks Understanding The Spirit Energy Source.
Spirit Is The Highest Energy Source.
Spirit is an Energy similar to Electricity. unseen with the eye. Life itself is spirit.
The basic principles of Christianity is corrupt and promotes Dishonesty. The call is faith you just believe what you are told without understanding or proof. And Injustice: sentencing and Executing an innocent man for the crimes of all humanity. and they promote Cannibalism by a ritual that they pretend they are eating Jesse's flesh and drinking his blood.
Jesus: The name Christianity worship by the book they worship refused to kill any Human and taught to love and care for all humans by in the book they worship.
The Great Creator performs Justice. You all will face your own consequences for your corruption and crimes. You will not pin them on an innocent man.
Most would understand life better if they had experienced the many Miracle in my 90 Years on this earth.
The most outstanding was George Neigh and his Daughter that had a special spiritual gift of filling hollow teeth with gold or silver. five had a diamond imbed in the filling. His Daughter would invite people to watch the metal pour into the hollow tooth.
However, The gift of filling teeth as George and his daughter had, is no greater than the technology that the Gifts humans have received from the spiritual realm of the Great Creator; in the medical professions and communication.
A great many lives have been save by the gift of the medical professions.
The Gift of Understanding Knowledge is far more practical and beneficial to Humanity Than Georges' Gift of filling teeth.
In fact George was very upset with people trying to use him as a Dentist; Coming to his house asking to have their tooth filled.
His gift was only to show the spirit energy source; Not to take the place of a dentist.
Honesty and understanding is the only true belief. Without honesty and understanding we do not know what to believe. To accept other’s opinion of the truth without proving it to yourself; it is being deceived it is not believing. We must understand to believe.
Truth will solve all our problems before we create them; and ignore or reject the truth; problems will multiply all by themselves; those problems will need no help.
Have a great and a meaningful life if it is at all possible.
Just whispers, of the Ghost of Reality.
Any comments on new discoveries made using James Webb telescope?