Science Is Not A Game In Which

A Man From A Primitive Culture Who Sees An Automobile Might Guess That It Was Powered By The Wind Or By An Antelope Hidden Under The Car, But When He Opens Up The Hood And Sees The Engine He Immediately Realizes That It Was Designed.

In Order To Say That Some Function Is Understood, Every Relevant Step In The Process Must Be Elucidated.

As Commonly Understood, Creationism Involves Belief In An Earth Formed Only About Ten Thousand Years Ago, An Interpretation Of The Bible That Is Still Very Popular. For The Record, I Have No Reason To Doubt That The Universe Is The Billions Of Years Old That Physicists Say It Is. Further, I Find The Idea Of Common Descent (that All Organisms Share A Common Ancestor) Fairly Convincing, And Have No Particular Reason To Doubt It.

The First Point One Has To Get Straight In Discussions Like This, Is That Id Is Not The Opposite Of Evolution. Rather, It Is The Opposite Of Darwinism, Which Says Life Evolved By An Utterly Unguided, Undirected Mechanism. If God Directed The Process Of Evolution, Or Rigged The Universe To Produce Complex Life, Then That Is Not Darwinism - It Is Intelligent Design.

The Conclusion Of Design Flows Naturally From The Data; We Should Not Shrink From It; We Should Embrace It And Build On It.