Intelligent Design

Once again I am outraged how government continues to remove God from our culture and society. America is on a downward moral slope towards secularization. A federal judge ruled yesterday that the Dover Area School Board violated the Constitution when it ordered that its biology students should be made aware of alternative theories to evolution such as Intelligent Design. U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III ruled that the concept of Intelligent Design is fundamentally religious, and thus violative of the separation of church and state. This is ludicrous. This whole debate about whether one can detect design in nature goes back thousands of years to the ancient Greek philosophers. Aristotle and Dimocrates argued over whether there was design in nature and it's important to realize that all biologists readily acknowledged that the appearance of design, at least, is very strong in life. With all of the information we have today, to think otherwise is to be ignorant. It takes more faith to believe that we evolved from monkeys and apes, than it does that human beings were divinely created.

When Darwin wrote his book on "The Origin of Species," he was ignorant and all of science was ignorant about the molecular basis of life. In the past 50 years, the progress of science itself has discovered that the very foundation, the molecular foundation of life is enormously sophisticated and elegant. There are molecular machines, there are little trucks and buses and outboard motors that shuttle supplies around the cell. And the term "molecular machine" is used routinely in biology. Biology is just filled with terms that imply design. Why not talk about intelligent design. Darwinian biologists seem to think that their theory is extremely strong and yet are afraid to discuss other theories.

Look, evolution is a theory and cannot be proven scientifically. There are many gaps (apes) that have not been filled, and many questions that cannot be answered about evolution. Why not allow alternate ideas or theories of how human beings came into existence? Why not talk about creation as an alternativexplanationon to the origins of the world and everything in it? I'll tell you why not, it makes sense. Scientist would then have to bow in allegiance to God and recognize Him as divine designer.

This idea that talking about creation, God, Jesus Christ, Christmas, or anything "religious" in public schools as being unconstitutional is false and misleading. We live in a Christian nation, founded by Christian men, who were not afraid to mention God, nor the existence of God. What we are doing when we are keeping "Intelligent Design" out of our schools is robbing students from fully understanding and comprehending science and life. I believe in science, however, science is limited. You must include God, if you are going to fully understand science.

Intelligent design is simply trying to account for the data that has been accumulated over the past 50 years. That data is that life is simply too complex to have originated from a bang or a boom. Science will continue to prove that we are intricate, complex beings that find its origin in a divine designer.