My reaction to intelligent design? Those were some smart aliens! Or, cool, it explains why aliens keep coming back to check on us! By this theory, ET was smarter than we thought.
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Why President Bush Got It Right about Intelligent Design
Intelligent design holds a winning hand in the scientific debate over biological origins
By William Dembski for WWW.BELIEFNET.COM
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President Bush is to be commended for his courage, wisdom, and foresight in publicly supporting the teaching of intelligent design alongside evolution.
Courage -- because intelligent design is for now a minority position in science that faces fierce criticism from many in the scientific mainstream (criticism that he himself will now have to face).
Wisdom -- because he understands that ideas are best taught not by giving them a monopoly (which is how evolutionary theory is currently presented in all high school biology textbooks) but by being played off against well-supported competing ideas.
Foresight -- because he sees that intelligent design holds a winning hand in the scientific debate over biological origins.
Intelligent design is a winner in the public debate over biological origins not only because it has the backing of powerful ideas, arguments, and evidence but also because it does not turn this debate into a Bible-science controversy. Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.
Christians need to view this as a strength rather than as a weakness of intelligent design. There is a long tradition in Christian theology that sees God’s revelation as coming through “two books”: the Book of Nature, which is God’s general revelation to all people; and the Book of Scripture, which is God’s special revelation to the redeemed.
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