Thinking About Creation: Intelligent Design and Choice

This is the first video in a series on various topics in Intelligent Design and Creationism. This video discusses choice as a fundamental cause in the universe, and how that relates to Intelligent Design.

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• evolution
• darwinism
• intelligent
• design
• creationism
• choice
• agency
• baraminology

[macguy]

Hmm, interesting video! Couldn't an evolutionist, however, just use that quantum openness as something which existed forever in the laws of nature but simply wasn't as you would say, "amplified"? Are all living things applicable to choice? Just a few thoughts and apologies if any misrepresentations of your video is in my questions.

[baraminology]

No apologies necessary. The question isn't whether or not openness has been around, the question is whether or not there has been something around to take advantage of it. Having an "openness amplifier" doesn't do any good if there is no outside entity of which to amplify.

[notyoursister]

Well desertfile sure kicked your ass. did it hurt much?

[baraminology]

I encourage _everyone_ to watch the desertphile video. I thought it was a great parody of evolutionists, although it was a little unfair to their intelligence. Most evolutionists are not as unthinking as that video lampooned them to be.

[cptnsdmy]

You should have just said: "I'll spare you the details -GODDIDIT!"

Like ID, you're vacuous; but you're consitently vacuous, I'll give you that much.

[baraminology]

So what are your answers to the questions at the end?

[alienspy07]

First off, 'Darwinism' is different from evolution, and has been dead for quite some time now.

1)Today it is used for political purposes

2)That doesn't change the fact that evolution is consistant with the scientific method

3)Edward Blyth's definition was different from Darwin's- and incorrect for that matter. Darwin did get a lot of influence from Blyth, however, and that's no secret.

4)All people who identify themselves as IDists are biblical creationists.

[Ishkur23]

Your argument is a fallacious paradox.

Choice quite simply can not exist in a Universe created by an omniscient deity who can intervene at any time for any reason without leaving any evidence.

Think about that.

[gamesbok]

This is metaphysical mumbo-jumbo. That Physics, at the quantum level must be statistical, but it does not indicate choice. Indeed, the very successful physics that is based on this statistical variability, has no mechanism, no criterion for choice. The very fact that the outcomes of sub-atomic reactions are predictable according to precise statistics indicates that there is NO choice involved.

[thebadger587]

Intelligent design cannot possibly explain anything because anything complicated enough to design life itself requires an explanation. Who designed the designer?

ID hasn't had a new idea since William Paley was debunked by David Hume, before Darwin's time.

Evolution is a fact. The universe didnt just poof into existence by magic. Get over yourself, get educated, and make the choice to lose weight.

[jhbbunch]

Creationism said that genetics would prove once and for all that we were unique. It has now shown that chimps are closer to humans than they are to gorillas. It has shown that chimps and humans are far closer to each other than members of creationist 'kinds' (like the cat family) are. OW and NW vultures separate at the avian (bird) level. One is related to storks, the other is related to hawks. Baraminology makes no sense of genetics. It is a joke.

[Bacchant33rd]

my comments have been erased...

[cptnsdmy]

Please just look up 'vacuous' in the dictionary.