Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Intelligent Design is a claim that the universe and living things are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than undirected process of natural selection and evolution.
Evolution is the change in the inherited traits which pass down from generation to the next; evolution is often used to explain the beginning of all beings.
Both theories contain big loopholes. Intelligent design is a theory which cannot be proven because we cannot know who or what had created the universe. Also, from looking at some of the useless organs in our body like the appendix, we can say that if we were created through intelligent design, we would not have these useless organs in our body. Evolution also has a lot of loopholes. For example, the second law of thermodynamics state that every energy transfer or transformation increases the entropy of the universe. If that is the case, we should only have evolutions or changes that cause more disorder in the physiology of organisms.
There are many controversies against this issue of Intelligent Design and Evolutionism. The side I would take in this issue, though, is intelligent design. Although we may never know who the Creator or what the Creating force may be, it only makes sense that something or someone had created us rather than we just burst out of the thin air. Our complex systems could have not just risen out of nowhere, but there must have been a Creator or a Creating force behind the existence of the universe and the mankind.
Besides from these two factors, I strongly believe in a theory called Theistic Evolution. I believe that we were created in the beginning by a Creator of a Creating force. From this, we were able to evolve somewhat as what we are today. This explains how we were able to have the complex systems in our bodies and also explain how through natural selection, we lose and yet have some unnecessary organs in our bodies.
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