Non-Intelligent Design - January 8, 2006
By: Sellers S. Crain, Jr.
On December 20, 2005 Judge John E. Jones III handed down a ruling on Dover, Pennsylvania School District case regarding the teaching of Intelligent Design in public schools. In Judge Jones' ruling he said that it would be "unconstitutional to teach Intelligent Design as an alternative to evolution in public school classrooms." He went on to say that in order to "preserve the separation of church and state mandated by the Establishment Clause of the First Ammendment..., we will enter an order permanently enjoining defendants from maintaining the Intelligent Design policy in any school within the Dover Area School District, from requiring teachers to denigrate or disparage the scientific theory of evolution, and from requiring teachers to refer to a religious, alternative theory known as Intelligent Design." When Judge Jones was confronted with the question of whether or not Intelligent Design was science, he wrote "We have concluded that it (ID) is not, and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from creationists, and thus, religious antecedents." Judge Jones concluded that the theory of evolution "represents good science" and Intelligent Design does not.
So Judge Jones obviously considers evolution science and Intelligent Design not science. This means that it is really a case of Intelligent Design (an intelligent designer behind the origin of our complex universe), and Non-Intelligent Design (evolution). If you disagree with that assessment, bear with me while I convey the case for evolution. Here is a sampling of the evolutionists science.
In the beginning there was matter, and it was just floating throughout the vastness of space. At a certain point some of this non-intelligent matter began to spin, and in doing so, created a magnetic force that drew more of the matter unto itself until most, if not all, of the matter in the universe was brought together in a gigantic whirling ball. The friction created eventually resulted in a tremendous explosion (the big bang) that scattered the matter in all directions. As the matter began to move away from the explosion, larger pieces of matter attracted smaller pieces of matter forming stars and planets. These planets somehow arranged themselves in an orderly fashion around a huge burning star --- our sun. The planet that came to be known as Earth existed in a kind of prehistoric energized soup.
Somehow spontaneous generation occurred (the instant forming of a cell) --- only once --- and that cell somehow began to multiply and divide until creatures began to be formed and to evolve into many varied life forms. After a long period of time, one of these creatures either swam or was washed upon a shore that had been formed around the water's edge, and it lay in the sun for a few million years until it somehow developed arms and legs. For a brief few hundred thousand years it climbed trees, until it either fell or climbed back onto the ground. Over more eons of time, this creature lost most of its body hair, it evolved into male and female, it discovered sex, and the human species was begun.
While I will admit to taking some license in my description of evolution, this is basically the "theory of non-intelligent design (evolution)." Decide for yourself, if this is more scientific than "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth..."?
Brotherly,
Sellers
