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Is Intelligent Design Science or Religion?
(Dissecting Intelligent Design)

Author and biochemist Isaac Asimov once wrote, "The Earth, in nearly 5 billion years since it assumed approximately its present form, has undergone a vast evolution." (Science PastScience Future, 1970). Today, the proof of evolution is in abundance, while the proof of an "Intelligent Designer" cannot be surmised without asking a person, who has religious faith, to question that faith, and one without faith to accept someone else's belief. In recent years, a new movement has presented itself to the American publicthis movement is "Intelligent Design". There has been much attention focused on the wave of legislative proposals and court cases, which aim at placing this new idea into public school science classrooms, and pit it against the theory evolution. The concerns and disagreement arise from what Intelligent Design really is. It is religion in disguise and not science, attempting to grind an axe at evolution and Charles Darwin for his leaving the science community a way in which to explain valid observations.

For centuries, civilizations have been plagued by a need to know the origins of life. Before scientific explanations came on the scene, most civilizations and cultures developed a story of creation, a way in which to explain the splendor we are surrounded by, and most carried a few similarities in their tales. Life came from a chaotic episode, and supernatural entities (polytheism) or entity (monotheism) assisted in designing it all. Amazingly, the label of myth is placed upon many creation stories, such as that of the ancient Greek, Norse, Native Americans, while other stories have developed into foundations of acceptable religions of today. Some believe a higher intelligence, maybe alien life, was responsible for how life came to be. When we do not have all the answers, it becomes easy to accept this reasoning. The world and all its wonders, how could there not be a supernatural entity responsible for its creation? But, then came science, and the often-misinterpreted theory called evolution.

There was, and still is, a movement to have creationism taught in public schools, but in 1987, the United States Supreme Court ruling in Edwards v. Aguillard declared the teaching of creationism in public schools violated the establishment clause of the constitution, halting, to a point, the creationism movement; and now, there is the new movement of Intelligent Design. Intelligent Design is

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