'Intelligent Design' is just Cloaked Creationism.

[scruffy]

Seems kind of mean spirited that the gods are expected to do tricks, like "miracles".

Miracles'' used to be extra-special tricks attributed to the gods. Surviving the drive to work being a ''miracle" tends to cheapen the god's brand.

Has anyone noticed that as mankind grew in knowledge, as he learned more of the workings of nature, claims to “miracles” have vanished at an inversely proportional rate?

There's a lot of trickster gods in Africa.

They're kinda mean, they play humans for amusement.

Then again, Africans believe a lot of other crazy stuff too.

Like eating body parts gives you the powers of the victim.

Humans believe a lot of nonsensical things on faith.

 

[Hollie]

There's a lot of trickster gods in Africa.

They're kinda mean, they play humans for amusement.

Then again, Africans believe a lot of other crazy stuff too.

Like eating body parts gives you the powers of the victim.

Humans believe a lot of nonsensical things on faith.

Here's a simple test for bibles and gods curing disease:
Find two people with radical appendicitis. Person A, apply 'bible science' (i.e., pray over them, burn incense, tell them to “believe”, rattle bones, whatever). Person B -- perform an appendectomy using modern surgical techniques without any prayer. Who will survive, who will die -- consistently? Then ask yourself why is it that when using prayer (or hoping for miracles) they've always died, and not until man learned the science of medicine did people start to survive

It's pretty self-evident

 

[Manonthestreet]

Here's a simple test for bibles and gods curing disease:
Find two people with radical appendicitis. Person A, apply 'bible science' (i.e., pray over them, burn incense, tell them to “believe”, rattle bones, whatever). Person B -- perform an appendectomy using modern surgical techniques without any prayer. Who will survive, who will die -- consistently? Then ask yourself why is it that when using prayer (or hoping for miracles) they've always died, and not until man learned the science of medicine did people start to survive

It's pretty self-evident

Here's a simple test for bibles and gods curing disease:
Find two people with radical appendicitis. Person A, apply 'bible science' (i.e., pray over them, burn incense, tell them to “believe”, rattle bones, whatever). Person B -- perform an appendectomy using modern surgical techniques without any prayer. Who will survive, who will die -- consistently? Then ask yourself why is it that when using prayer (or hoping for miracles) they've always died, and not until man learned the science of medicine did people start to survive

It's pretty self-evident

Pretty infantile response.

 

[Hollie]

Pretty infantile response.

Yours certainly was. Why did you bother?

 

[Manonthestreet]

Well an ape person wouldn't understand so I won't bother.

 

[Hollie]

Well an ape person wouldn't understand so I won't bother.

well, that was pointless.

You're just an attention seeker.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Is just Cloaked Creationism dictated by legal rulings.
Creationism lost standing/rights in schools, so they had to make it sound more science/less religious.
But it too has now lost standing/got outed for the Same reason.


""Intelligent design (ID) is a Pseudoscientific argument for the existence of God, presented by its proponents as "an evidence-based scientific theory about life's origins".[1][2][3][4][5] Proponents claim that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection."[6] ID is a form of creationism that lacks empirical support and offers no testable or tenable hypotheses, and is therefore not science.[7][8][9] The leading proponents of ID are associated with the Discovery Institute, a Christian, politically conservative think tank based in the United States.[n 1]

Although the phrase intelligent design had featured previously in theological discussions of the argument from design,[10] its first publication in its present use as an alternative term for creationism was in Of Pandas and People,[11][12] a 1989 creationist textbook intended for high school biology classes. The term was Substituted into drafts of the book, directly Replacing references to creation science and creationism, after the 1987 Supreme Court's Edwards v. Aguillard decision barred the teaching of creation science in public schools on constitutional grounds.[13] From the mid-1990s, the intelligent design movement (IDM), supported by the Discovery Institute,[14] advocated inclusion of intelligent design in public school biology curricula.[7] This led to the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial, which found that intelligent design was Not science, that it "cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents," and that the public school district's promotion of it therefore violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. [15]

ID presents two main arguments against evolutionary explanations: irreducible complexity and specified complexity, asserting that certain biological and informational features of living things are too complex to be the result of natural selection. Detailed scientific examination has rebutted several examples for which evolutionary explanations are claimed to be impossible.
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Intelligent design - Wikipedia​

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Mr. Garrison explains the "Science" behind Evolution

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Kabbalists called the Ego Satan, the Opponent. A lifelong companion who challenges us 24/7/365, never gives up, but is rooting for us to overcome it