Intelligent-Design Addressed at Southern Baptist Seminary
Friday, Apr. 15, 2005 Posted: 5:45:06AM EST
‘These issues of Intelligent Design and creation really cut to the heart of worldviews, what we are about’
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Dembski contends that the first goal of ID is to “demonstrate the inadequacy of Darwinian evolution as an explanation of the origin of the universe.”
He sugested that one of the chief methods disproving darwinism is to demonstrate the weakness of the scientific evidence that is presented in support of Darwinian evolution in many school classrooms.
“Evolutionary theory is in such a weak position that it shouldn’t be taught at all … in this grand global sense,” Dembski said. “If you want to say natural selection operates in accounting for antibiotic resistance in bacteria you can make a case there. But if you are going to try to say that’s how you get bacteria, insects, all this in the first place, that’s a huge extrapolation. The theory doesn’t support that.”
In addition to offering a critique of Darwinian evolution, Intelligent Design proposes alternative theories about the origin of the universe, according to Dembski. These alternative theories argue that a designer must have fashioned the complex biological and physical mechanisms humans observe in the world, he said.
Although much of the scientific community views Intelligent Design with disdain, according to Dembski, as many as 90 percent of Americans “are favorably disposed” to the idea.
He continued saying that because naturalism has influenced a variety of fields such as science, philosophy, business, and economics, Christians must be prepared to combat the naturalistic worldview in every arena of life.
One of the most effective ways to battle naturalism is to use Intelligent Design to challenge the basic assumptions of Darwinian evolution, he said.
“Intelligent Design is pressing that you can’t get [the design of the universe] without intelligence.”
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