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Opposition to intelligent design (view source)
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, 13:09, April 25, 2008Why are scientists, who supposedly only care about the physical world, up in arms about the religious implications of their work?
Opposition to intelligent design is largely motivated by entrenched distaste for it philosophical implications.
Opposition to intelligent design is largely motivated by entrenched distaste for its philosophical implications.
The question that ID poses is not "might there be an intelligent designer?" so much as "is there evidence of intelligent design?" Yet the first thing ID opponents always bring up is that [[design]] implies a designer. For atheists, such a designer could only be [[God]]. (Or as [[Richard Dawkins]] said in [[Expelled]], since God almost certainly does not exist, the designer must be an alien from outer space who was himself naturalistically evolved. Obviously, Dawkins brought up that alternative to dismiss it.
The question that ID poses is not "might there be an intelligent designer?" so much as "is there evidence of intelligent design?" Yet the first thing ID opponents always bring up is that [[design]] implies a designer. For atheists, such a designer could only be [[God]]. (Or as [[Richard Dawkins]] said in [[Expelled]], since God almost certainly does not exist, the designer must be an alien from outer space who was himself naturalistically evolved. Obviously, Dawkins brought up that alternative to dismiss it.)
Why are scientists, who supposedly only care about the physical world, up in arms about the religious implications of their work?
The point is that atheists and materialists in the mainstream of modern science reject any suggestion that the material world is all there is. If evolution were to lose credibility, atheism would accordingly lose support. This would lead to what is for them an outrageous alternative.
The point is that atheists and materialists in the mainstream of modern science reject any suggestion that the material world is all there is. If evolution were to lose credibility, atheism would accordingly lose support. This would lead to what is for them an outrageous alternative.