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    Citizenschallenge-v.3 replied to the topic Thoughts on terminology reĀ  Science ‘vs’ Religion in the forum General Discussion 5 years, 2 months ago

    I haven’t had much time, so been missing a bunch. Ā It is has been an interesting thread. Ā It begins with:

    INTELLIGENT DESIGN & CREATIONISM

    ā€œIntelligent designā€ is a thing ā€” a specific thing.

    I’ll admit I haven’t read a lot of stuff on the topic, though I’ve spent lots of time thinking about it. Ā Aside from what others say ID is, it seems to me ID is more a feeling.

    I can’t help think I’m not alone, that when I get into reading or listening to the details of biology or evolution, particularly all the stuff being discovered in the past couple decades, it overwhelms, almost a bit of vertigo at times, the complexity is unimaginable, but we have the data coming at us.

    Absolutely no way to comprehend it, scientists through much learning and training and doing can grasp it in a way we lay people can’t touch.

    Looking at masses of under-educated people – Ā seems to me ID is a sort of inevitable lynch pin to grasping the material world beyond our sense. Ā Just like Jesus is a lynch pin that’s helped countless deal with the challenging difficult lives each of us live. Ā Both are feelings.

    Some take it more serious than others, some don’t need any of it at all, and so on.

     

    I believe the challenge is to take back the term “Intelligent Design” by providing a more realistic definition to what ID could be. Ā Making “could” a key part of the lesson.