Intelligent design and creationism
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Intelligent design and creationism no more closely linked than Evolution and Social Darwinism. Just as Darwinism contains some elements which were historically used to support Eugenics,[1] the scientific theory of intelligent design (ID) can be used to bolster the scientific theory of Creationism.
Atheists and believers both agree that if life has been designed, then this implies the existence of a Designer or Creator. Accordingly, philosophers who deny the possibility of supernatural causation are hostile to ID because it undermines one of atheism's primary arguments against the existence of God.
Frank J. Sonleitner wrote:
- "The people who adamantly insist on teaching "intelligent design" in science classes are the young earth creationists, who will identify it with fundamentalist religion!" [2]
References
- ↑ "Its only program for man is scientific breeding, a system under which a few supposedly superior intellects, self-appointed, would direct the mating and the movements of the mass of mankind -- an impossible system!"-William Jennings Bryan [1]