[Avodah] intelligent design

[Eli Turkel via Avodah]

from http://www.intelligentdesign.org/whatisid.php

Is intelligent design the same as creationism?

No. The theory of intelligent design is simply an effort to empirically
detect whether the "apparent design" in nature acknowledged by virtually
all biologists is genuine design (the product of an intelligent cause) or
is simply the product of an undirected process such as natural selection
acting on random variations. Creationism typically starts with a religious
text and tries to see how the findings of science can be reconciled to it.
Intelligent design starts with the empirical evidence of nature and seeks
to ascertain what inferences can be drawn from that evidence. Unlike
creationism, the scientific theory of intelligent design does not claim
that modern biology can identify whether the intelligent cause detected
through science is supernatural.

some of the arguments of intelligent design include
Irreducible complexity
                                                       Fine-tuned Universe
anthropic principle

Hence, I don't understand RYGB comments
There are no cogent arguments against intelligent design properly understood

Hence, most scientists don't accept intelligent design, those that do say
it doesn't prove that the is a creator and it certainly has nothing to do
with Torah mi-Sinai and mitzvot

While these arguments are good for some baale teshuva it is not the basis
of Judaism

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Eli Turkel
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