An Intelligent Design Agnostic

The debate between science and religion rages on: Are the two compatible, or are they completely irreconcilable? In God and the Astronomers, a book exploring the relationship between the science of astronomy and faith, Robert Jastrow wrote the following:

“The scientist has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak. As he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”

It is interesting to note that Jastrow is an agnostic.

The case of Jastrow goes to show that you don’t have to be a Christian fundamentalist to look at the universe scientifically and conclude that something intelligent created it all.

Evolution Beef

I’m pretty tired of reading and hearing accusations that only ignorant people question evolution, and that anyone with half a brain would accept this theory.

Listen.

The theory of evolution is referred to as a theory for a reason. It also has a lot of holes in it. The evolutionist looks at the creationist as stupid for believing in something that doesn’t have all the answers. Yet the evolutionist contends that its theory is still valid even though it hasn’t come close to explaining itself.

The Bible says that God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1). But you probably already know that.

Besides this point, it takes a truly intelligent and reasoning person to look at science for what it is, and accept that it doesn’t have all the answers. It also takes an intelligent person to look at the facts of a theory and find them wanting. That person has crossed a line and stood up for what is really true, and instead of a parroted answer that we evolved from monkeys and science has proved this (which it hasn’t), using reason has found that maybe there is another answer. This answer may not be an atheistic one. And maybe the Bible does have it right after all.