Theists claim that life is too complicated to have arisen without some form of higher intelligence...
does that really prove there is a god?
can it not be some other form of metaphysical intelligence?
really? youre satisfied with the answer "it doesn't matter"?...you will live a very boring and unenlightened life
i'm an atheist and i say if someone somehow convinced me of ID i would presume it was aliens, not an omnipotent force
Steve B
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I believe that Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy seems the more believable option.
JStrat
It's a claim, not a proof, and it's a claim with as much evidence as the claim, "The gods live in the clouds atop Mount Olympus, beyond the vision of mortal men." Which, of course, was once a claim also believed to reflect reality. And that claim, likewise, had no evidence. Eventually we could actually see the top of Mt. Olympus for ourselves, so future religions hid their gods more carefully behind such words as "supernatural" and "unseen".
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evolution by natural selection can explain in most of the cases the complicated levels of life without the need to appeal to some higher intelligence.
If you claim something you have to bring proves to support your claims.
Anonymous
Yeah good point. It points out there is indeed a God. But does it say anything more? That christianity is the sole right way to him? That all the other religions in the world are worthless and a waste of time?
God could be not at all human like. ID says nothing about God himself, just that he exists.
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It took the world 4.5 billion years to get to such complicated life. Intelligent design is not needed.