THE THEORY OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN

Any discussion of 'INTELLIGENT DESIGN' usually invokes or encounters several positions taken bythose who attempt to discuss it, aside from an outright dismissall, on various grounds. The motives of those who do undertake this discussion are nearly always suspect or questioned,particularly if it seem those who do have ;an agenda rather than any real insight or understanding of the subject. There are those who adopt a very literal,fundamental consideration based on various religious backgrounds and who refer to and cite innumerable 'sacred', 'religious' or 'mystical' writings and compilations as both authoritative, as the truth, and necessary. These groups,often well-meaning,when confronted with others openly hostile,present problems in any rational discussion of this theory.There are groups who reject all such things as mentioned and embrace agnosticism, atheism, skepticism, and science as only being true. THE THEORY OF SPECIAL CREATION or INTELLIGENT DESIGN and the THEORY OF EVOLUTION, which is generally confined to the origins of life and only afterwards about the origins of the sun and planets and then to the galaxies and UNIVERSE(S) are the main focus of this discussion. Others may take a more practical viewpoint,'DOES IT REALLY MATTER IN THE LONG RUN?" to the man in the street, the peasant, the farmer, the sick and the dying and the poor? Still others will take a position that attempts to embrace all the contradictions found in all these positions, arguments, and outlooks AD INFINITUM.