Religion & Law

Bad Arguments for ID # 1656

By John Pieret

From a Letter to the Editor in the Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Republican Herald:

Adherents to religion agree that something or someone created the universe. Is it not possible that "God's" creation involved careful design of the hierarchical natural laws that comprise it?

Here's the scenario as I see it: God creates physics, physics dictates chemistry and chemistry dictates the rest ?including evolution.

The problem is that scientists studying a particular branch of science get bogged down in the minutia, not contemplating the bigger picture. This is precisely why evolutionary biologists have taken flak before, and will, no doubt, continue to do so.

A scientist tries to understand nature empirically, but not its physical origin; this is, for now, the realm of pseudoscience.

So as not to open a veritable Pandora's box, I'll close with a parable from Thermodynamics Laws: Verse 2. Disorder (or entropy ? for those concerned with vernacular) always increases.

How then does life stay together and function, when it's thermodynamically unfavorable even to keep water from evaporating?

From a physical standpoint, judicious invocation of "intelligent design" appears more legitimate than randomness.

Full post as published by Thoughts in a Haystack on February 20, 2009 (boomark / email).