Intelligent design. Usually these discussions end up in a fray of semantics. "what do you mean by intelligence?" What do you mean by design?" etc..ad nausem.
It jerks atheist bobbers when any inkling of god rears its head in a discussion, much less the class room. Words like psuedo science and "creationism in a new pair of shoes" begin to crop up. All so predicatable.
I for one hope we never find the answers out because then what the fuck would we have to talk about? Reality TV?
Age old phlosophy and arguments recycled and rehashed. The bottom line is that nature is just as mysterious as any god or Intelligent designer one would care to postulate.
What one man calls god another calls nature.
There is no practical way to know if the universe is a product of design from a designer, or just is. Period.
Humans have only been around for a geologically short period of time and on the grander scheme of things are fairley insignificant. It is only important that there be a designer to those people who for what ever reasons choose to believe that it is so. It gives them a warm fuzzy. Perhaps it keeps them out of the pit of nihlism.
You may now return to your regularly scheduled debate.
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