Blogger Joe Carter has an interesting discussion of Intelligent Design (ID) theory going on at the Evangelical Outpost. Carter presents an excellent summary of the common objections to ID theory and provides very good responses to the criticisms. In addition, and quite usefully, he invites opponents of ID to post their own objections, and they are doing so with great brio. ID supporters, including Carter himself, are responding in kind. It is a very interesting debate indeed, and one with political implications as school districts consider whether to include ID in the curriculum. Read it
here.
Isn't thsi strom in a tea cup confined to two boundaries:
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2) Confined to the narrow geographic boundaries of the United States.
This tends to exclude the rest of humanity from the discussion. Many other religions do not believe in a Genesis as defined int eh Bible. Also, this debate is not part of the rest of the world.
I believe that this debate is once again the narrow view of the West that it is the font of science and religion. Hence, just on the strength of ID proponents in teh limited scope of the US, entire centuries of scientific thinking cannot be turned on its head.