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"...it IS a scientific theory that has LOTS of evidence behind it." Intelligent Design is NOT a scientific theory. For I.D. to be a scientific theory, it would have to be testable. Testing for a God is impossible, which is why so many scientists remain agnostic. They cannot prove one way or the other by science if a God exists. Intelligent Design says they can. Intelligent Design also draws into the supernatural explanations for natural means. Science is inclusive of the natural world. Resorting to supernatural phenomenon to explain natural means is a slippery slope. In short, science becomes dependent on God to function. Yet, science can function without God.  

"...it IS a scientific theory that has LOTS of evidence behind it." Intelligent Design is NOT a scientific theory. For I.D. to be a scientific theory, it would have to be testable. Testing for a God is impossible, which is why so many scientists remain agnostic. They cannot prove one way or the other by science if a God exists. Intelligent Design says they can. Intelligent Design also draws into the supernatural explanations for natural means. Science is inclusive of the natural world. Resorting to supernatural phenomenon to explain natural means is a slippery slope. In short, science becomes dependent on God to function. Yet, science can function without God.  

Do I think Intelligent Design denies the existence of God? No. Do I think Intelligent Design make the scope of God smaller and smaller? Yes. A  Theistic evolution believe that God created the mechanism that drives evolution; he created the world through the works of nature. I.D. has God playing in the parts that science cannot explain. According to theistic evolutionists, one glorifies God and one debases Him. The theory of Intelligent Design portrays a God of the gaps.  As science matures and can answer the questions I.D. poses, the domain for their designer slowly deteriorates. If people begin to fuel their faith by scientific evidence that God (or a designer) exists, they will be more liable to have a faith crisis upon the addition of scientific findings.  

Do I think Intelligent Design denies the existence of God? No. Do I think Intelligent Design make the scope of God smaller and smaller? Yes. Theistic evolutionists believe that God created the mechanism that drives evolution; he created the world through the works of nature. I.D. has God playing in the parts that science cannot explain. According to theistic evolutionists, one glorifies God and one debases Him. The theory of Intelligent Design portrays a God of the gaps.  As science matures and can answer the questions I.D. poses, the domain for their designer slowly deteriorates. If people begin to fuel their faith by scientific evidence that God (or a designer) exists, they will be more liable to have a faith crisis upon the addition of scientific findings.  

Intelligent Design has done nothing but point out the unexplained as inexplicable. Concepts on complexity are founded on what we have yet to know, not on what we will never know.  

Intelligent Design has done nothing but point out the unexplained as inexplicable. Concepts on complexity are founded on what we have yet to know, not on what we will never know.  

-Sarah

-Sarah