Dr. Forbush Thinks

I was sitting in my car driving home with the radio off. Once in a while some quiet time does me some good. I was thinking about the phenomena of the Religious Rights campaign to discredit the Theory of Evolution. They can’t use the Book of Genesis to teach an anti-science science class because of the religious nature of the Bible. Even among some Religious the Book of Genesis is considered to be the story of the Creation Myth.

So, the Religious Right had to back peddle and create a new way to attack the Theory of Evolution. They created an idea called “Intelligent Design.” The idea is that humans and animals and plants are such complicated things that there must have been some being that created them. Since they can not actually say God, because God has religious implications they call the being that they assume created life on earth as the “Intelligent Designer.”

Of course this is a thinly veiled reference to God and Religion, which is their goal in the first place. They claim that the argument that an Intelligent Designer is needed because life is so complex. This is the argument that gets repeated over and over.

Well, lets start with the assumption that anything complex must need to have an Intelligent Designer. There could be an army of these Intelligent Designers that came from outer space somewhere, right? So, there does not necessarily need to be a God that designed life, right? Well, the clever Fundamentalist Christian would likely tell you that another designer needed to design these space beings. They are also complex creations, and every complex creation needs to have an Intelligent Designer, right?

Well, maybe another race of space beings created that race of space beings. Of course the clever Fundamentalist Christian will tell you that God, er the Intelligent Designer must have created whichever space beings came first.

So, we are left in a predicament. Any complex creation must have an Intelligent Designer. So, then we must ask the question, “Is God complex?” If God is indeed complex, then God must have had an Intelligent Designer. So, then God is either not complex or he does not have an Intelligent Designer. And if God does not have an Intelligent Designer, then there does not have to be an Intelligent Designer for every complex object.

So, logically there does not need to be an Intelligent Designer.




politics, Intelligent Design and religion