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Originally Posted by Astroman
scuse my dumbness but whats ID?
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Andrew. I am not sure that the recent thread on ID (following a program on this topic on SBS) actually explained what Intelligent Design actually is. With the indulgence of the moderators, I would be happy to give an brief explanation. You could probably google it, but you would come up with so many entries that I suspect you would have many hours reading.
A good place to start is here:
http://aer.noao.edu/AERArticle.php?i...on=4&article=2
Creationism is a doctrine that has arisen from fundamentalist Christianity which sees the world around us as being the handiwork of God, and not of any natural evolutionary processes. There is not a single creationist viewpoint, as there are several "schools" of thought of young earth and old earth etc creationists.
Some time ago, the US Supreme Court held that the teaching of creationism in US public schools was unconstitutional, as it did not preserve the separation of church and state. Teaching religion in US public schools appears to be a big no no, and creationism fell into this category.
After this decision, the creationists changed their "creation science" into an "ïntelligent design" science. This appears to accept (although there are many divisions of thought amongst the ID people) that the universe is the product of natural evolutionary processes, except for the creation of man bit. They regard the human species as so special that there can only be some intelligent ceator behind it.
I would have liked the opportunity to explain some of the natural evolutionary processes that created the Universe as we currently behold it in the thread on "the Universe is not an accident". However the thread was closed off even though the discussion had been very cordial and reasonable to that point.
see also:
http://aer.noao.edu/AERArticle.php?i...on=4&article=3
http://www.astrosociety.org/educatio.../56/index.html
hope this helps