Thoughts about Intelligent Design

Intelligent Design.

Seems like that phrase leaves an awfully bad taste in the mouths for an awful lot of folks. In pondering that, it strikes me that what is so apparently annoying, is that there seems to be little 'evidence' for it that makes sense to one who aspires to have a scientific grasp and view of the world.

Hmm...that seems an operative phrase. View of the world. World view. It seems that, for some, a scientific world view is the only Truth out there. That this is so obvious, that any other world view seems stupid, inane and too ridiculous to be considered. That's interesting to me, considering that an awful lot of brainy types out there in the quantum physics field basically have no idea how to explain simple things like, oh, how an atom is put together and how the particles that make up an atom do what they do, and what those particles that make up the particles that make up atoms are made of or how they work. How about their explanation of probabilities and where do those itty bitty particles and such disappear to when they disappear? Their answer....”ah...somewhere, we don't really know, but they do.” *nod * Sounds an awful lot like the explanation of Transubstantiation to me. So, there are all these extremely brainy folks out there, winning Nobel Prizes and such for their theories of how the Universe is put together and what things are ultimately made of, but when you get down to it, a lot of their explanations pretty much depend on an Article of Faith that at least rivals the explanation of Transubstantiation.

Yeah, the attitude annoyed me. Hence my spending the last 3 or so hours reading about quantum physics, leptons, quarks, antiparticles, Quantum chromodynamics, lattice gauge theory, fundamental interaction, Quantum field theory and such.

Well, I have since decided that instead of being all annoyed, I'll just respect this physical scientific world view as being as valid as say, the Judeo-Christian creation theory, the Cree creation theory, the evolution theory, the Turtle theory, the Hindu theory, quantum physic theory, etc. I mean really, when you get down to it, it is all about observational view point anyway. One Truth can be quite as valid as any other. It wasn't so many years into the past that it was a 'scientific fact' that dunking a woman until she drowned was a valid test for being a witch or not.

I'll just hold myself in a space of being open-minded about it all, especially in view of the fact that 100 years from now what is currently seen as 'scientifically valid fact' may be considered provincial superstition as we continue to advance in tools and understandings to explain things in greater depth tomorrow than we can today.