INTELLIGENT DESIGN AND RESISTANCE TO IT

 

 

Is the belief in macro-evolution rationally tenable in view of the exploding evidences of intelligent Design?

 

·       How do some birds, turtles, and insects possess navigational abilities that rival the best manmade navigational technologies? Who or what taught the honey bee its dance, or its hive mates how to read the complex message of the dance? How do blind mound-building termites master passive heating and cooling strategies that dazzle skilled human architects? In The Origin of Species Charles Darwin conceded that such instincts are “so wonderful” that the mystery of their origin would strike many “as a difficulty sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.” In Animal Algorithms, Eric Cassell surveys recent evidence and concludes that the difficulty remains, and indeed, is a far more potent challenge to evolutionary theory than Darwin imagined. https://www.discovery.org/store/product/animal-algorithms/?fbclid=IwAR0TPuZB3OMEyYQUh5VHCidKfx-tie-3771Vb0I72iqPqUvqElCckAtcf4A

 

In light of this, perhaps evolution’s hegemony is being held together by little else than a stubborn commitment to a religion of Naturalism (non-design), a deliberate God substitute. Some atheists will even admit that their chosen religion is unbelievable. NYU Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and avowed atheist, Thomas Nagel, is 75 years of age and has taught for the past 50 years. Perhaps this helps to explain his courage in bucking the evolution establishment:

 

·       For a long time I have found the materialist account [that the world consists of nothing more than molecules in motion] of how we and our fellow organisms came to exist hard to believe, including the standard version of how evolutionary process works. The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical account becomes…The current orthodoxy about the cosmic order is the product of governing assumptions that are unsupported, and that it flies in the face of common sense. (Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False, 5)