I e ID relies on the current lack of scientific understanding for a particular phenomenon as evidence for their position The Essence of ID If the origin of a complex biological structure phenomenon has not been scientifically explained then an intelligent designer must be responsible for the origin of the structure Unlike a god made it that way hypothesis ID theory make predictions what will NOT be found that are potentially falsifiable o ID Prediction For structures created by an intelligent designer no intermediate precursors should ever be found in nature For instance previous versions of ID the idea actually dates back to at least 1802 claimed that the perfect functioning of whales and feathers in their respective environments was evidence for a designer Science has since discovered a series of fossil animals with morphological intermediates between land animals and modern whales in the precise age of rock strata where they were predicted to be A similar series of fossil dinosaur intermediates have been found documenting the evolution of feathers Now ID advocates do not talk about whales feathers or vertebrate eyes anymore To date ID s hypotheses have not withstood serious examination and they do not make useful predictions regarding future events as Evo Theory does Because ID makes no predictions regarding future events it is not scientifically testable ID theory is not science 5 Theistic Evolution Accepted by majority of Christians especially in western European countries Belief that God works through the natural laws and processes that he created including Evolution The position of the Catholic Church after the writing of Pope John Paul II on evolution which states that the spiritual realm is real and remains outside of naturalistic explanations and that faith and reason are complementary avenues to the truth and cannot contradict each other Quarterly Review of Bio vol 72 381 406 1997 0 This position allows for direct intervention of God 6 Materialistic Evolution Actually contains no creationist component supernatural cause for any natural law or process But this does not automatically imply atheism o belief that god other deities do not exist Example one can be a deist A philosophical positions that maintains that there is no reason to invoke a o one that believes that God created the natural laws and processes but then refrained from further direct intervention So the universe was not directly created by God but rather indirectly through the creation of natural laws and processes no direct intervention by God Conclusions from above listed creationism categorizing 1 There are many different positions within creationism which can be characterized as containing varying degrees of contradiction with scientific evidence 2 Materialistic evolution does not necessarily lead to atheism 3 Most scientists are atheists deists or agnostics a believe that it is currently impossible to know whether or not God exists So what is Evolution really about 1 Evolution can be technically defined as a change in frequency of genes found in natural populations population geneticists definition microevolution 2 A major consequence of microevolutionary change over great spans of time is that evolution can also be seen as gradual descent with modification linking all life forms on Earth Macroevolution change Major evolutionary events or trends usually view through the perspective of geological o Example the development of whales from terrestrial ancestors is a macroevolutionary event that is now well documented in the fossil record and by the comparison of morphology and DNA sequences among living mammals And the closest living terrestrial relative of whales is the Hippopotamus Misstatements regarding evolution are frequently used as evidence against the theory however 3 Counter to some creationists claims evolution is NOT a theory regarding the origin of a Example in order for a change in gene frequencies over time in a population to occur the prior existence of that population is required 4 Counter to some creationists claims evolution is NOT a theory regarding the origin of life the universe a This question is interesting but it is outside the scope of evolutionary biology Science compared with Creationism Science tries to objectively assess problems by development of multiple testable via predictions hypotheses and then bring all available data in order to falsify the hypotheses Creationism and other pseudoscientific enterprises are beliefs and preferences rather than objectivity over reason o Example preferred conclusions are the starting point with selective use of data in order to support their preferred conclusion meaning ideology takes preference Ideology a closely organized system of beliefs values and ideas forming the basis of a social economic or political philosophy or program For notes from 9 9 14 see notes that were sent to us