<div dir="ltr">from <a href="http://www.intelligentdesign.org/whatisid.php">http://www.intelligentdesign.org/whatisid.php</a><div><br></div><div><h3 style="padding:9px 0px 14px 10px;margin:0px;font-size:1em;color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:18px;font-weight:normal;border-top-left-radius:6px;border-top-right-radius:6px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background:rgb(68,178,229)">Is intelligent design the same as creationism?</h3><div class="" style="border-bottom-left-radius:6px;border-bottom-right-radius:6px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><p style="margin:0px 2px 2px;padding:8px 10px;clear:both;word-wrap:break-word">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.</p><p style="margin:0px 2px 2px;padding:8px 10px;clear:both;word-wrap:break-word">some of the arguments of intelligent design include<br></p><h3 style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px;overflow:hidden;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:0px;border-bottom-style:none;line-height:1.6;font-family:sans-serif;background-image:none;background-repeat:initial"><span class="" id="Irreducible_complexity" style="font-weight:normal"><font size="2">Irreducible complexity                                                                                                            </font></span><span style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.6">Fine-tuned Universe</span></h3><div><span class=""><div style="font-size:medium"><span class="">anthropic principle</span></div><div style="font-size:medium"><span class=""><br></span></div><div><span class="">Hence, I don't understand RYGB comments </span></div><div style="font-size:medium"><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">There are no cogent arguments against intelligent design properly </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">understood</span><br></span></div><div style="font-size:medium"><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></span></div><div style="font-size:medium"><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">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</span></span></div><div style="font-size:medium"><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></span></div><div style="font-size:medium"><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">While these arguments are good for some baale teshuva it is not the basis of Judaism</span></span></div></span></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div>
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