Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Semi Inteligent Design

I've recently been wading through some of the "Intelligent Design" (ID) stuff. It strikes me that a lot of it pre supposes that evoloution is "anti god". Which is not exactly true. Evoloution does reduce the need to have a god to explain why things are the way they are but it dosn't necessarily negate the existence of a god. How this universe came into existence and how it got set in motion with a finely balanced set of physical constants and laws is a bit of a mystery. Theres plenty of room for a God to explain this (as there is room for non god explanations). But it is interesting to note that since the start of the universe that there is not really a need for a God to be involved. However it is also interesting to consider this in the light of my previous blog about time. Time is relative. Our perception of billions and billions of years simply dosnt exist for things like light which experiences no time passing at all. There is also a lot of weirder stuff happening at a subatomic level. So the nature of a God and how it would be intertwined with this universe could be entirely beyond the bizzare!

1 comment:

Keith said...

this comes back to the whole "deconstructing" thing. Going back to the pure fundamentals of your faith and realising that how the universe came into being is not really part of that. Considering at least one version of Genesis was in poetic form it seems unlikely that it was trying to be a scientic account. Though this brings up something else I've been pondering on, and I'd appreciate your thoughts as I dont really know where theology is with this.... and that is... Is the bible the word of god? Or is it a bunch of stuff, written by man, that contains within it the word of god. But not just the word of god but the word of man also. Thats the only way I could see the bible working. That the bible isnt divine, it was just the best and most authentic collection of writings about god and jesus a bunch of guys came up with.