Creative design and Evolution, what's the big deal?

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: Creative design and Evolution, what's the big deal?

Because, clearly, it has to be one or the other or you're just crazy.

Its also referred to as "intelligent design" not "creative design."

Ben Stien made a rather entertaining movie about how scientists in the education world are trying to supress the discussion of Intelligent Design even while the theory of evolution itself and the science behind it have brought us no closer to a definitive answer to the question of how life began.

The movie was called "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed"

The heart of the matter is that freedom of expression is what's being supressed by the Evolution crowd. America was founded on the notion of freedom of expression as well as freedom of religion. Without these freedoms, even the scientific process would have been held back centuries because the basic fundamentals of science start with something simple: a question.

Without the freedom to inquire or question things, lots of scientific advances would not have been possible - they would have been surpressed by various religious beliefs or even political institutions (or both). But is it really fair to go back and supress and discredit the scientific work of others just because they may believe in a god? That's the antithesis of this freedom we founded America on.

[Vyuru]

So like, something has been bothering me for a really long time now. The few Catholic people that I knew either didn't care or were the types to really get worked up in a frenzy over the subject.

So I hear two sides to this. To quickly summarize the two arguments. One side is that God created everything and that evolution is a myth. The other is that it's evolution FTW!

Both sides say they're right, and well, yeah.


I however, don't see why Creative Design or whatever they call it has to exclude evolution, and I don't see why evolution has to exclude creative design either. Why can't it be both?

So please, enlighten me, I'm curious.