Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
I think this movie/documentary will be very intriguing...
Darwinism has always been flawed fundamentally, as is Science and reasoning. I think it has greatly changed the way we think, as in.. about knowledge and all that. Flawed - because although it is a more convincing school of thought in the 'core' areas of science - medicine, engineering, et cetera - it struggles (and arguably, fails) to explain human cognition and existence.
In my opinion, the alternative is simply an excuse - Creationism... and so the creator is the explanation for everything, including 'self.
I would go on to say, Intelligent Design is just a devious concept that attempts to straddle science and theology (reason and faith, respectively), conveniently avoiding both the paradoxes of the belief in God (that the omniscient, caring and all-powerful God allows evil & suffering; that He is both eternal and temporally present in time as a man) and the limitations of reasoning (keep asking "why?" to everything, and see how far can you go). This won't work out, nor convince me, because ... it isn't reasonable.
If Creationism is proposed as an addition to religion, then I'm fine with it. But to propose Creationism as an alternative to Science (herein defined as systematic rational thought), is nonsense!
Science probably will never provide all the definitive answers to all our questions, especially regarding our existence, but I think Science shouldn't and doesn't have to do so. That is not scientific reasoning is about anyway... I perceive it as a method of thinking, not a set of answers.
Aye, whatever, you may disagree. Please do.
here are some things to chew on, if you are still hungry:
the thesis
and the anti-thesis
and I hope the documentary will be out soon, in theatre or DVD...
I'm looking to it, not for answers... but... for a lighter perspective (it is a movie after all, how academic can it get?) on such a topic
anyone interested?
posted by hweiee at
10:37 AM
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Creationism is already proposed as an addition to religion. It is a fundamental part of theology.
and intelligent design is proposed as an alternative to evolution (but not science as a whole)
Btw, you should type a lot more when commenting on religion to clarify your views in case you sound offensive. You will be surprised by the number of people who are religious.
i'd agree that u should exercise discretion when u post about religion. well but the theist-atheist argument will not be ending soon.
but i have one question: if god created everything, what created god?
well, but u dont need reason to believe. eveyrone has their own rights to believe in what they do. i just hope that people won't infringe on each others' rights and force them to change their beliefs.
yes Leon, extremely controversial point, i would say...
to ask:
if god created everything, what created god?
is, in itself, a method of reasoning. therein, an attempt to use science to understand religion.
a similar point to yours was raised in the pajamas-media link ... but then, I think it is not appropriate to use science to explain religion. To quote the very phrase Dr Robert C. Solomon (a very famous professor in a branch of philosophy called existentialism) used, "religion is a realm where science doesn't even get a foothold"
haha and u seem, an atheist. no?
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