I Wish I Had Said This - We Don’t Need an ID Movement
by WCBKeith Mitchell gets the credit and a whole lot of it for this post. He sent it out as an email but I thought it was worth sharing with a much bigger audience. Great thoughts, Keith.
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I’m not really convinced that there is a need for an ID movement. You either get it or you don’t.
Most every Law of Physics breaks down at some level. Electromagnetic Theory breaks down at the quantum level. Solid state physic try to explain Superconductivity. These breakdowns keep us employed. We have very little understanding of how Gravity and space-time work. Einstein and many others have been trying to unify Gravity and Electromagnetism for years. Going back to the Big Bang and trying to work our way back has yielded huge gains in understanding, but much is just beyond our eyes, ears, and touch.
In fact, theorists are predicting that we can’t generate enough energy to answer some questions. Back to the drawing boards to design new tools.
Some things are actually accepted as being impossible. Where does the electron go between orbital states? It is uncertain and defined to be that. If you try to measure it any closer, you can’t.
There is plenty of room for God to work supernatural acts among the natural world just by weighting the dice. This is my corollary to Feinman’s statement there is plenty of room at the bottom. Unlike Einstein, I believe if God wants to throw dice, he can and I praise him for that. You either see his hand, or not. It is not against any law of physics that an axe head will float on water. It is just highly unlikely. Likewise, all the molecules of oxygen can move to one side of the room and you would pass out from thin air. Not forbidden by any law of physics, just unlikely. Can a man be risen from the dead? Ok, not fair with that one.
For decades astronomers resisted the idea that the universe had no beginning. Turns out they are wrong. Very wrong.
Over and over, nature proves itself to be just weird. Look at the sub-atomic world. Oh, and look at the mathematics invented to explain Quantum Chromodynamics. Guage theory. It is pretty strange.
What I’m afraid of is that people with one axe to grind, proving Evolution can explain everything, may in fact blind themselves to evidence that may be important to study. Just as people trying to prove that the universe has no beginning, some contrary voices must be allowed to argue otherwise.
We are just now starting to learn about whole new fields because of the computer. Study of bio-chemistry, nano-technology are coming out of the dark ages with tools just as powerful as the microscope was to biology. The tools that cells use, wether by design of God, or nature should be freely studied as a design. I don’t know that we have to be so bold as to insist that the design must be Intelligent when we really don’t know to what extent God is loading the dice.
Whenever someone says they have it all figured out and there is nothing to look at here, that is when we should worry. A little closed mindedness goes down badly with the scientists. Closed mindedness is a problem for both the ID and the non-ID people, so where do we go from here?
Keith