I find the following sentences very interesting: "How can we know if God is real? Wouldn't it be nice if we could pick up the telephone and give him a call? Or drive by his house just to see if his car was in the driveway? Fortunately, there are better ways to address this question. Consider this perspective: since God is infinite and we are finite, if God wanted to make himself known he would have to make his presence clear. So, are there any signs that point to the reality of God?"
Actually, IT WOULD BE REALLY NICE if we could pick up the telephone and give him a call, or drive by his house to see if his car is in the driveway, or better still, if God would arrange a media conference to announce his existence. Unfortunately, these are not going to happen, and we have to come up with less direct ways to examine the reality of God, through, say, identifying the marks of Intelligent Design.
Meanwhile, a school district in rural Pennsylvania told students that evolution was not a fact and that living creatures were too intricate to have arisen by evolution. They were encouraged to explore a different explanation of life - intelligent design.In this New York Times article - Unintelligent Design (20/2/05) - Jim Holt asks: "What can we tell about the designer from the design? While there is much that is marvelous in nature, there is also much that is flawed, sloppy and downright bizarre."
Holt says it is hard to avoid the inference that a designer responsible for such imperfections must have been lacking some divine trait -- benevolence or omnipotence or omniscience, or perhaps all three. Could the intelligent designer have created the universe wholesale rather than retail, endowing it from the start with an evolutionary algorithm that progressively teased complexity out of chaos, so that imperfections in nature would be a necessary part of a beautiful process?
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