Moorad wrote:>
> My conception of religion is man seeking God; whereas the
> Christian faith it
> is God seeking man. Accordingly, the ID movement can never lead to Christ
> but to a heuristic "proof" of the existence of God. Moorad
Not only that, ID claims not to care whether the designer is God, Allah,
Aliens, or your next door neighbor.
“Behe’s argument does not entail (as in logically compel) a theological
conclusion because it is consistent with other explanations. For instance,
perhaps some advanced alien race planted fully constructed, reproducing
organisms on a hospitable earth some time in the distant past. IN that case,
someone other than God would have designed these features of the biological
world. Sure, it’s far-fetched; but it’s possible. For this reason,
intelligent design arguments in biology do not normally entail theistic
conclusions even if many people suspect God is lurking somewhere in the
background.” Jay Wesley Richards, “Proud Obstacles & a Reasonable Hope,”
Touchstone, July/August 1999, p. 29-32, p. 31
When I read things like this, I wonder why Christians see such hope in the
ID movement. Are we to be convinced of God's existence when some alien race
might have created us? Here is what Johnson himself has had to say on the
topic:
glenn
see http://www.flash.net/~mortongr/dmd.htm
for lots of creation/evolution information
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