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Charles Edward White, in Christianity Today, investigates the fine-tunedness of the world in which we live and the sheer impossibility of random mutation to do the job of what we see today in biology.

10^301 (that's 10 to the 301st power) mutations is a number far beyond the capacity of the universe to generate. Even if every particle in the universe mutated at the fastest possible rate and had done so since the Big Bang, there still would not be enough mutations.

This, and many more facts, explains why many intellectually honest astrophysicists, origin of life scientists, and biological scientists have seen the light.

This is a excellent article by Liz Kemmerer, of Science & Theology News.

An an ID course in the philosophy department of secular Knox College has recently concluded.

Martin Roth professor of philosophy of science at Knox taught a short philosophy course titled, “Intelligent Design,” to explore the topic historically and critically at the secular college. This is the first known course solely dedicated to intelligent design. A concentrated course, it debuted during the college winter break from Nov. 29 through Dec. 16 with seven students meeting for three-hour sessions, three times a week for three weeks.

"Anti-Darwinists claim that you're killing God and Pro-Darwinists claim he's already dead," said Micah Riecker, a senior creative writing major from Traverse City, Mich. "It just keeps spinning because people are so uninformed about what is going on." Added Roth: "All of the students are now very much aware that the issue is far more complicated than implied by the media."

Wayne Adams, in the American Chronicle, states that "the Intelligent Design movement is the latest attempt to inject creationist beliefs into the classroom. It is also a concession of sorts."

"Intelligent design proponents have conceded the superiority of the scientific method to faith. They know that an assertion based on scientific research is more credible than an assertion based on faith. So they have endeavored to promote their creationist beliefs as scientific. But the scientific method is a tool for finding answers to phenomena. What they have done is search for phenomena for which we don’t yet know the answers and claim that God did it."

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Mr. Adams apparently neither knows the Biblical definition of faith, nor what IDT is about.

Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, and the EVIDENCE of things not seen. By faith we UNDERSTAND that the universe what formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. Faith is assurance of things unseen by investigating evidences the can be collected by our methods and analyzed by our minds in the here and now.

Blind faith and Christian faith are like oil and water. They are separate and do not mix.

The FACT (science) - VALUE (faith) split which is constantly trumpeted by naturalists is a deception, and needs to be aggressively undermined. Both sides are contending for their worldview, or a comprehensive explanation of the TRUTH of the cosmos we are discovering through scientific or other inquiry.

According to many scientists, the discipline of science is continually seeking naturalistic answers and is seldom, if ever, dogmatic about any conclusions. They do have some degree of Biblical faith that what they are doing will lead them to increased knowledge of phenomena.

Mr. Adams claims that IDT is a "God of the Gaps" theory. This is simply false. IDT looks at things in nature, non-living and living, and through investigations, such as in the fields of scientific forensics, archeology, or SETI, rightly concludes that an intelligent agent caused what the scientists are investigating. Some phenomena shout "agent causation" and IDT is willing to acknowledge this screaming message. Scientism is not.

IDT critics, like Eugenie Scott, encounter a perplexing branch of science, i.e., origin of life, and admit that they don't have the answer right now, but assert that eventually they will discover a naturalistic explanation for the origin of life. Dr. Lawrence Krauss, of Case Western University, states in one of his lectures that "we don't understand the origin of life - big deal." These are the ultimate "cop-outs", and anyone who does not see this, is philosophically and emotionally blinded. Naturalists' assertions amount to the tacit admission that they don’t have the goods, and utterly reject the possibility that there is anything beyond energy, matter, space, and time. Similarly to what Mr. Adams states above, we can say that "what they (naturalists) have done is search for phenomena for which they don’t yet know the answers and claim (assert) that Nature did it." They do this because there philosophy (worldview) gives them this option ONLY. This is known as narrow-mindedness.

Scientism, or reductionism, reduces consciousness, thoughts, reason, or love to complex chemical reactions in a physical thing we call a brain. You cannot scientifically calculate the weight, or measure the length, height and width, or the numerical value of faith, or thoughts, or values, or love that a person possesses, yet these immaterial "things" undeniably exist. How do physical chemical reactions result in immaterial effects? No scientist knows. But scientism boldly asserts that it will eventually figure it out. Trust us.

Mr. Adams is sloppy in his thinking, and does not define the very terms he is writing about. He is doing the two-step, like so many other scientists, and simply regurgitating the ofttimes irrational and false talking points of atheists and agnostics.