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There are people who say that they can make a mockery out of those who say that Intelligent Design is impossible...?
These people make their claims, but they never back it up at all. What evidence (if any) can prove that intelligent design exists?
Look, I know that there was a fraud thing with the whole intelligent design thing, but I am not asking for arguments that disprove it, I am really just asking for some kind of reasoning with evidence as to how it can even exist.
The sarcasm is strong in your answers, and it seems like as if only one person so far has actually attempted to answer my question, even if things like birds flying into formation can be explained by evolution...
Evolution can explain the process of birds migrating in formation through a simple understanding of genetic variation. One, not all birds fly in a flock or migrate. The birds that have to migrate do not have traits that allow them to live in colder temperatures very well. Two, because there is variation in the birds, it would be more logical to assume that the birds had to have developed a method of traveling longer distances efficiently. I have already stated that ID cannot explain variation.
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- QuestionerLv 76 years ago
Arguments against ID:
1. I don’t like the idea of a creator. If the creator is God, I just might be accountable for my actions.
2. My teacher confidently told me it’s pseudoscience, and since I’m a free thinker, I believe everything she tells me.
3. The courts are never biased and never make a mistake and they said it was just creationism is disguise.
4. The majority of scientists today believe in Neo-Darwinian Evolution and truth is always decided by the majority (isn’t it?).
5. Because I can come up with a parody religion called Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
6. Because I have a chronic illness and a broken machine shows that it was never designed to begin with.
7. Because you can’t tell me who intelligently designed the intelligent designer (I think I’m the first person to come up with that).
8. Because they are all IDiots (haha, see what I did there?).
Obviously I’m being facetious, but those are arguments I hear all the time (albeit worded a bit differently).
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A Scientific History, and Philosophical Defense, of the Theory of Intelligent Design:
- ANDRE LLv 76 years ago
One of the findings of fact in the Kitzmiller V Dover trial was that intelligent deign was a purposeful FRAUD created to disguise creationism so as to get around the SCOTUS decision in Edwards V Aguillard that specifically found that no science supported creationism and that creationism was a wholly religious view, thus ineligible to be considered as science, especially in public schools.
- choko_canyonLv 76 years ago
Intelligent design isn't based on evidence, it's based on faith, also known as 'wishful thinking'. Don't hold your breath waiting for theists to present you with evidence for it.
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- Anonymous6 years ago
ID can be destroyed easily with two words. Pluto's orbit.
Game. Set. Match.
- Anonymous6 years ago
The first thing that comes to mind is birds flying in formation when they go south for the winter.
Also, take a look at the bombardier beetle
What about cars or shirts or chairs? Accidentally came together or created by someone?
Question to asker: Really? You tell me how birds flying in formation can be explained by evolution.
- Anonymous6 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6AdEDm2mLQ
Did you know there were people who thought everything just *popped* into being?
