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The Intelligent Design Movement...a double edged sword
There is an old saying that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. As is
often the case with old sayings, it isn’t necessarily so. The
Intelligent Design Movement is one such case. Scientists and academics,
based on the evidence from their researches, realized that the standard
Darwinian evolutionary story of random changes bringing about life and
the enormous variety in the living world just doesn’t make any sense
and so they started the ID Movement. People like Philip Johnson, a
lawyer, showed how evolution fails the logic test and is not true
science, it’s just story telling. Michael Behe, a biochemist, showed
how the specified complexity of a cell couldn’t be explained as an
accidental combination of chemicals.
For the evolutionist establishment, the ID Movement is a nightmare that
just doesn’t end. Because most of its leading players are not
Creationists, and many not even Christians, evolutionists can’t trot
out the charge of religion as a reason to ignore them. Even worse for
evolutionists is that the whole movement is getting serious attention
in the media. The evolutionists’ most common responses are to ignore
their findings or to indulge in personal attacks on them. What the
evolutionists can’t do is to scientifically disprove the evidence of
intelligent design.
While the ID Movement is great at showing the scientific fallacies of
evolution, it can also be a problem for Creationists because the ID
Movement promotes disbelieve in the accuracy and authority of the
Bible. If the main point in the Creation/evolution controversy were to
show how the world we live in can only be explained as the result of
intelligent design, then there would be no problem, but it isn’t. The
question isn’t about scientific facts, but rather about what the Bible
really is. Is the Bible the true, accurate and authoritative Word of
God or is it simply a collection of invented myths? Without a clear
understanding that the ID Movement is not supporting Biblical Creation,
some Christian may be seduced into accepting compromises with the
Bible. As is always the case, what needs to be determined is this, what
are the people involved primarily interested in promoting? With the ID
Movement, support for the Bible is not part of their agenda.
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
2 Timothy 3:16
