With your statement here, I believe Intellegent Design (ID) can stand strong. There is plenty of evidence that there must be a designer, considering how well made all creation is. That cannot really intellectually be denied.
There isn't plenty of evidence at all. And it's easy to deny it.
You know, if people want to believe that there is a God and that He created everything, that's fine. Belief doesn't need evidence. So why the stretch by the IDiots to try and prove God exists by finding "evidence" that He created everything. Every claim is debunked but still they go on. Why? What is it that drives them to try and find evidence? Is their faith so weak? Or is their hatred for non-believers so strong?
You have noe seen me try to prove Gos in any of my posts. I believe, and have all the proof I need. To be honest, nothing is debunked, with the exception of a few wrong proof conclusions. Tey as you will, I don't think one can debunk the fact that God is the creator of all things. Most really don'[t even try to prove what they don't believe exists.
I have no need to prove anything. Remember, this thread, and all of them about God and creation being proven, are started by people who don't believe He exists. They seem to be the ones driven by the desire to find evidence. Why is that? Maybe it is because they are really hoping they are wrong, and someone will convince them. Well, they can only look to the one they don't believe exists to get that kind of understanding. They are not willing to listen to people of faith.
Once again, I have my faith, and init there is all the proof I need, and even more. I cannot hold it in my hand and show anyone, but I can hold it in my heart and enter an eternity with God. My life is awesome, with a few firey trials along the way, but with God I am at peace, and have a joy I cannot explain. I need not prove anything, God willdo that. It is His task.
If the existence of a creator is a fact then show the evidence. I don't think you can. A fact should be able to be proven to be called a "fact", it it's not able to be proved, it's not a fact. It might be a subjective belief and that belief might be held by millions of individuals but that doesn't make it a fact.
I'm not trying to disprove God's existence, I know enough to not try to prove a negative. I am saying that no-one can prove God exists. I'm not concerned with someone's faith, I'm not interested in trying to test anyone's faith, I'm just interested in trying to get some sort of mutual understanding and consensus about the facts. That's why I get cranky with the IDiots, the misrepresentation of science is highly annoying. If they believe, then fine, but they shouldn't interfere with science by using non-scientific methods to try to disprove accepted scientific theories. It's retrograde.
As for humans, we probably need God. At times I think we're akin to a species infected with a collective madness visited on us by our evolutionary development. The big cerebral cortex we share is responsible for our intellect, yet we still haven't mastered our most reptilian of impulses.
We're like a bunch of toddlers who've been on a high sugar diet locked into a big room and given automatic weapons to play with. We need a supervisor so we invent one.
Because we're human we're cursed with the knowledge of the mortality of the individual. So we need gods, we need the concept of an afterlife, to comfort us in that sad knowledge.
Small wonder even many non-believers, surrendering to the innate fear of that terrible knowledge, deep inside hope that there is an afterlife.
But sometimes I think we're wasting our intellectual effort on trying to bolster a comforting mythology when we should be using our intellect to understand that humans have one life to live and to come to terms with the fact that it will end. Religiosity is a comfort for sure, it's very human and (religious-inspired brutalities aside) it is harmless as a concept. But I suspect it's a con job we perpetrate on ourselves.
I sometimes wonder (again) that if a child were brought up in a non-religious community and educated about the reality of human existence in all its forms and the fact that the individual will one day be no more, that the child would grow up to be a well-balanced adult who appreciated life for what it is and understood that, inevitably, one day it would end. An acceptance rather than a continued denial or the use of mythologies about an afterlife might see a more human human.
I'm sure of one thing though - it would reduce dramatically the number of potential suicide bombers.