Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Could intelligent design and evolution could be a combination?

Could the writer possibly mean to ask if the two theories could be combined as one? Or if they are already in fact the same thing? Well, there is no way that these are two non-contradicting theories, because there are parts of each that directly contradict each other. In intelligent design it says that organisms were created with detailed and complicated features already intact, and that an “intelligent designer” put them in place. While in evolution, it says life started many, many years ago, with very, very simple life forms, and they were put there by some unexplained event. And from the first batch of organisms, reproduction and random mutations gave some organism’s different features than others. Some of these features could proved to be useful, and helped them survive and prosper to reproduce plentifully. This made many different adaptations in many different environments. The two theories can only be combined if you have a halfway where intelligent design ends and evolution begins. In this theory, there was an intelligent designer who created some of the root species that many other species have since evolved from. So these theories can, in theory, be combined, but it would take away base elements of the theory of evolution, and they are not at all already the same theory, Intelligent design is more to the side of religion, magic, and definitely creationism, whereas evolution is one the side of science and evidence.