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Evolution and intelligent design: Taking sides 26 Articles

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    by Carlos Olivares

    Evolution is not a fairy tale alternative to Intelligent Design (ID). Evolution is not a made up guess that lacks empirical evidence, nor is it an event that has never been witnessed. Evolution is a well researched, overly...read more

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    by Huckster

    When I look around me and at myself, I am impressed at the complexity of nature. I'm amazed how all the different cells, tissues, chemicals and fluids can all be balanced in precise amounts to allow life to function. Not...read more

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    by John Leonardson

    There are a few simple questions for proponents of evolution. First of all how do you explain evolution with regard to the second law of thermodynamics? If closed systems always head toward entropy, how is it that evolutio...read more

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    by Matthew Ryan

    The question of the existence of God has been debated throughout the ages. Today, there is a movement to teach "Intelligent Design" in the classroom alongside the "Theory of Evolution." Personally, I'm not against the te...read more

  • by Warren Longwell

    Evolution versus creation, that 150 year-old debate which never seems to go away. It's not about the natural world, and it's not about Charles Darwin, and it's not about science. It isn't even about the word of God. The de...read more

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    by Jae Baeli

    The God Banana On YouTube, recently, a video was posted of a Christian program called "The Way of the Master" wherein the hosts, Ray Comfort and actor, Kirk Cameron, gave their argument for creationism based on the "desig...read more

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    by Scott Christmas

    Did life spring from non-life, as evolution suggests, or was there intelligence behind the formation of life out of nothing? This is a question that gets to the heart of the debate between those who accept evolutionary sc...read more

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    by David Mollen

    ID or Evolution There has been a lot of discourse lately over the issue of Intelligent Design and Evolution being taught to 9th graders. If both of these ideas are just theories, as they both technically are, then why ...read more

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    by Mike Murphree

    Why do we insist on comparing apples and oranges on every issue of life? Evolutionists would suggest that life as we know it happened by natural selection and therefore God (if He exists) didn't do it. Religionists would ...read more

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    by Neil Woodard

    Has anything ever stood the test of time that was unintelligent? By that I mean that everything has a design, everything. The fact that we reason, create, destroy, produce, and live according to some structured order sho...read more

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    by KY Philosopher

    Natural theology was given its clearest modern expression with the 1802 publication of Natural Theology by William Paley. In this work he provides us with an elegant version of the teleological argument for the existence ...read more

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    by Eric Karen

    Since the introduction of the scientific eye to the human race, man has pulled himself away from intuition and towards his physical senses. What does this mean in relation to the search for the truth of existence? For a...read more

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    by Kelly Mastanduno

    I have an analytical mind and have struggled myself with this question; Evolution or Creationism? It's as deep as asking, "What is the meaning of life?". This remains a debate because neither side can provide irrefutable p...read more

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    by Matthew Woodland

    The argument that is worthy of discussion.Both sides have an interesting theory.My question for the people who agree with evolution is this.If there is no intelligence behind it,then how would things such as species even k...read more

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    by J. SanRevell

    Some consider God and science to be mutually exclusive. Perhaps, we do not have to exclude God from the world of science. What if God created the Big Bang? The universe is a rich, complex, varied tapestry of living organis...read more

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    by Wayne Wiggins

    In the beginning there was... Humankind only knows for certain that which is tangible. Things we can identify with our senses. Things we can observe. So when it comes to understanding the universe in terms of evolution ...read more

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    by Sheepcat

    Intelligent design falls over its own shoelaces and ends up with a bloody nose! The core idea in this jazzed up version of creationism is the existence of "Irreducible complexity", this means any feature of a living thi...read more

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    by AMERICAN MAN

    "THE BLEND" I'm good with that! I can give preference to either in a meritorious brief to account for a reasonable scenario for them both yet evolution predates any god theory by eternity so we can cross god off as part o...read more

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    by Bohdan Rewko (Bo of T.O.)

    There is no conflict between true science and intelligent design as a scientific concept. There is however a fundamental rift between scientists who are theists and scientists who would have us to believe that science by ...read more

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    by Seamus Bradley

    Intelligent design (ID) is a theory that says that life on earth was created at some stage by some outside intelligent source. The main evidence for this claim is that there are thing that are difficult to explain given ou...read more

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