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Author Topic:   Evidence for Intelligent Design-is there any?
Blue Jay
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Message 60 of 220 (480786)
09-06-2008 11:41 AM
Reply to: Message 57 by John 10:10
09-06-2008 11:14 AM


Re: The Cambrian Explosion
Hi, John.
John 10:10 writes:
We Creationists will never be able to prove any ID arguments to evolutionists because evolutionists are convinced beyond any doubt that not only did millions of life forms suddenly spring forth at the beginning of the Cambrian period due to mutation and natural selection, "it certainly did" according to their definition of science.
Again, this is a dodge of the central question.
But, instead of showing us the evidence for Intelligent Design, you have opted to complain that we wouldn't accept it anyway.
I am certainly not "convinced beyond any doubt" that life forms suddenly sprung up by mutation and natural selection in the lower Cambrian period. I do not believe that evidence beyond doubt has been provided for the transitional fossils that I read about all the time. In fact, I personally maintain that a sort of "God of the Gaps" explanation is still possible (and I still hold out a tiny bit of hope that it might be shown true someday, just to justify my otherwise irrational faith in God). But, nobody has provided any evidence that convinces me of it, and many scientists have provided evidence that makes it less and less likely every year, so I will not accept or defend it. There's nothing to defend it with, other than a paucity of information.
And, even when someone comes along claiming to have found evidence for a God of the Gaps, I will remain very skeptical, and even attack it, because that's the way science finds out if evidence is worth anything. In fact, that's what happens to literally all new ideas that come out in science: they attract enemies and doubters. So far, the only people to complain about this have been creationists. Everyone else fights back with more experiments.

-Bluejay
Darwin loves you.

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