August 10, 2005

EH - 20 Intelligent Design

“Intelligent design is three things: a scientific research program that investigates the effects of intelligent causes; an intellectual movement that challenges Darwinism and its naturalistic legacy; and a way of understanding divine action….It was Darwin’s expulsion of design from biology that made possible the triumph of naturalism in Western culture. So, too, it will be intelligent design’s restatement of design within biology that will be the undoing of naturalism in Western culture.”

Somebody recently asked me for a comment on the issue of intelligent design and i stated my opinion based on what i thought the term meant. After reading Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld's article today - i can see that i had a complete misconception of the jargon. There is no reason that science and religion can't coexist and both be real. Why is this a battlefield?

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