Evolution vs. Intelligent Design vs. People

(Science vs. Religion vs. People)

Evolution a theory not a proven fact yet the evidence does support the facts, is easily explained to another scientist but to us common folk tends it to go over our heads somewhat.  Now I've read Richard Dawkins's book The Blind Watchmaker and it all made perfect sense but I could not then explain it to anyone else mostly because I think of the semantics barrier. You read one book and need another to explain what the first book was about.  The layman's version of evolution is everything started out as something else, effectively we envolved from single-celled organisms.  Now the normal opposition to this theory and a somewhat simplistic view is how can you have half a liver, kidney or the most famous half an eye.  The simplistic view being that neither the glass is half empty or half full, it cannot be complete unless it is full.

There are lots organisms on the planet that already have "Half and Eye", single-celled creatures called Dinoflagellates have areas that are sensitive to the light.  Starfish have light-sensitive cells as well.  Maybe in a few billion years a Starfish will writing a similar blog to this.

Intelligent Design (ID) is not a theory and has no evidence to support well anything really.  Lets get our language straight first, a "Theory" is based upon observable repeatable physical events within our universe.  For example an apple falls on your head, you wonder what makes things fall down and not up?  ID suggests that the blind watchmaker isn't blind at all and everything in the universe has a purpose designed by one all powerful entity a god in effect.  Everything in ID requires faith, belief in something that has no facts.  I find it odd that they did not allow for the possibility within their philosophy for more than one god, after all before the advent of christianity man worshipped more than one.  The reason being is ID is a religion that is dogmatic to any other possiblitiy.  They are controlled by their faith, a neat recursion for the men holding the strings.

Between these two sit "people".  The avarage man or woman in the street has no interest in the above they have a different faith and it is called consumerism.  If its in vogue or cheap or both then they will buy it as individuals however when you put them all together then you have a mob and the psychology is the person with the lowest IQ rules.  This is where religion wins over cold hard facts every time, ultimately people just want to live forever and most religions will give you this, of course you have to die first though.  Robert Heinlein once said "The true irony of life is that hardly anybody gets out of it alive."  There are people (hawks/wolves) who just want to know and others (doves/sheep) that are just willing to believe especially if you get a free toaster into the bargin.

Effectively science doesn't have a hope in hades, with the faiths and people against them.  You may wonder why I'm even writing this blog, do I think there is alway hope.  Hope is a belief and I'm not into belief, but I am into highlighting what is going on in world maybe people will change for better some day.  An idea worth thinking about, what is worrying however is the possibility is that the change will be another method of control.