Sunday, March 6, 2011

Who is the "designer"?

Intelligent design has been claimed as either religious or non-religious, however no one supporting creationism has been able to prove any of the ideas they've come up with with any evidence that supports it. On the religious side of things, certain people in support of the intelligent design movement have expressed that they consider the Abrahamic God "Elohim" as a creator god to be the creator of the universe, and they deny that it is God himself. This is what the Raelians believe, which could also be considered as a non-religious view on creationism, depending on whether or not you consider Atheism to be a religion or not. The Raelians are Atheists that believe the world was created by humanoid extraterrestrials called Elohim, which was the word used for God in ancient writings. On a slightly different hand, Dembski believes that it can be any god (or gods) that have created the universe. Many also believe that it is a Christian God over any other Gods of other religions. However, Dembski also said that the intelligent designers could be space aliens, which is also believed by Raelians. They believe that aliens have created the earth from outer space. One more belief is that the intelligent designer is some sort of time traveling cell biologist, and this was proposed by Behe. None of these ideas have any scientific proof and hardly any other proof at all. If anything, they may even cause people to support the contrary, considering how irrational they are. Behe fails to provide any biochemical evidence for his statement that the world was created by so-called "time travelling biologists", and because there is significant scientific proof for evolution and none for creationism, the creationists are at a loss with proving their claims to be correct. God has also been failed to be proven, because it is a belief based on faith rather than science. The last question I wonder when I think about the people that believe in intelligent design, is who do they think created God, or these “time travelling cell biologists”, or “Elohim”? Then who created whatever created them? The questions never end. I personally think it’s simpler to just stick with science.