This just in! You can go here and watch the entire 65 minute intelligent design video Unlocking the Mystery of Life online for free! The video is very well done and has interviews with all the ID bigshots (Dembski, Johnson, Behe, Meyer, etc.). You must watch it.
Comment by Steven Carr
July 30, 2006 @ 4:33 am
I asked Behe personally on Hank Hanegraaf’s radio show, if he believed that there was good evidence that Homo sapiens are descended from creatures that were not Homo sapiens.
He said that he did believe there was good evidence for that.
Comment by Jeremy
July 30, 2006 @ 8:18 am
Steven,
The intelligent design community is a fairly diverse group. Some believe that the first appearance of life was through special creation and then life evolved after that, some believe life evolved most of the time with only special ‘pushes’ from time to time, some believe only the advent of humanity required some special creation; some believe in an old earth, some (very few) in a young earth, etc. The only unifying characteristic is that they do not believe Darwinian mechanisms alone can account for the existence and diversity of the complex life that today exists.
Comment by Steven Carr
July 30, 2006 @ 8:50 am
It appears ID has nothing useful to say except ‘Darwin was wrong’.
Comment by Jeremy
July 30, 2006 @ 9:06 am
More specifically, ‘Darwinism is wrong’. And when this pronouncement goes against what is usually an entire worldview that dictates how science is done, what kind of conclusions are allowed therein, where we came from and how we got here, whether there is purpose and meaning in life, and whether there can be objective good and evil, among other things, well…that seems pretty important to me.
Comment by Simon
July 30, 2006 @ 5:15 pm
Me too.
The apologetics of young earth organizations is good for rallying believers, giving us confidence in our belief that God created the heavens and the earth. The ID Community does that too, but also functions as an apologetic that strongly challenges unbelieving scientists, is paid more serious attention to by mainstream media, and has a better shot at helping form legislation that does not assume a naturalisitic worldview.
Comment by Jonathan Bartlett
August 1, 2006 @ 5:24 pm
Steven — I think the problem is that you are viewing ID as a theory of origins. It is actually a theory of causation.
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