Intelligent agent

wouldn’t have come into existence by chance, just as the world must have been created for a purpose. Paley also used the idea of an eye and how it’s been designed especially for the purpose of sight. Paley believes the design of an eye suggests an intelligent designer. This is a strength because something as complex as an eye must have had a designer because it couldn’t possibly have come into existence on its own. Such evidence could only be the result of a ‘designing creator’ which for Paley…

renaming creationism Intelligent Design. Their new strategy to bring creation into American public schools was to argue that creationism is scientific like evolution and should be taught in the scientific curriculum. The creationist argue that their theory is scientific, “Intelligent Design theorist argue that certain physical systems, including biological ones, exhibit what is known as specified complexity, and that specified complexity is best accounted for by intelligent agency” (Lutz 2013,…

present world through a Biblical and Christian perspective. The Natural World In verses 19-20 of chapter one, Paul speaks of the creation of this world. When considering how life began, there are only two options. Either life was created by an intelligent source (God) or it began by natural processes (Ham,2005). In…

In the landmark decision of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, Judge John E. Jones soundly argues that intelligent design (ID) does not represent a scientific theory, but rather a religious argument whose teaching in public schools violates the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. This argument exhibits both logical validity and true premises in its categorization of the theory as non-scientific, thus being truly sound. In essence, the decision states that…

In the middle of the 17th century, thinkers in the enlightenment began to question how belief in the existence of a monotheistic God could be rationally supported. A number of arguments for and against the existence of God emerged at this time, and while the philosophical debate on the existence of God is still in session, the initial dust has settled. At this point in time, it is abundantly clear that a the cosmological argument is untenable at both a metaphysical and empirical level, and that…

In the essay Evolution as Fact and Theory by Stephen Jay Gould, he argues that generally, creationists miss use the terms “fact” and “theory” to attack the indisputable concept of evolution. He argues that the question scientists are attempting to answer is not whether evolution occurred, this is a fact as he defines it, but rather the question should be how evolution occurs. The essay begins by bringing forward the idea that old issues should be brought up only if there is new evidence. That…

In what extend, creationism and evolutionism create a controversy among experts? Evolutionism versus creationism are one of the most controversial topics in our modern world and because of that, there are several hypotheses about the origin of species, from the theory of evolution by Charles Darwin to the theory of the creator in the holy bible; these hypotheses can be view skeptically since there are a few areas of knowledge and ways of knowing that we can look at. Then, what…

Compare Evolution and Creation There has been a lot of theories on how the earth came into existence. In this paper we are going to look at the two, most popular theories evolution vs creation. The Creationist thinks God spoke the world into existence. The Evolutionist thinks the world started with a “big bang.” To look at the subject of how the earth came into existence we need to set our personal differences aside. Let us start with how humans and plants came about. We all have cells, we…

Aquinas, the Catholic theologian, considers the topic of ultimate conception when he postulates that that God is the answer some fundamental scientific problems. Specifically, the origin of motion, the maximum of things, the cause of things, and the intelligent design of all things. Aquinas states that all things must regress and that this regression ultimately ends with God (Boss, 2012, p. 57). Granted, Aquinas is trying to use available logic to explain concepts that had no other frame of…

In the article, Evolutionary Creation: Beyond the Evolution vs. Creation Debate, the author, Denis Lamoureux, explains the term “evolutionary creation”. This term is used to describe a collection of Christians who embrace both ideas of creation and evolution. Traditionally, creation is used by faithful Christians to describe the origins of the universe and reject the notion by scientists that the universe and life are products of evolution. The views of evolutionary creationists are sometimes…