Larian Studios Forums General Chat Chat (Anything) Evolution vs creationism

[color:"orange"]However I see nothing in modern science to contradict the idea of Intelligent design[/color]

There is none, and there very likely never will be. In order to disprove intelligent design, you have to understand everything, to show that everything has progressed as would be expected from natural causes. Even then, our current understanding of all physical laws breaks down in a singularity. Despite various theories on what may have caused the big bang, or what may have existed before it, there is no way to prove them, so (as Morbo said) there will always be an opening for both creationism and intelligent design.


[color:"orange"]If all this is based on universal rules (i.e. gravity, reaction laws) all we would have to do is input a start point into the supercomputer in the sky and BAM!!! The future history of the world is at your fingertips...[/color]

This was not an uncommon belief a hundred years ago, before the development of quantum mechanics. It is physically impossible to know all of the initial conditions, even if you had the formulas to plug them into.

Even on a non-atomic scale, there are systems which show extreme dependence on initial conditions (chaos theory). Even with a very accurate starting point, there are some things which are random or can not be measured, which can have a significant impact. With the weather being the most obvious example of a chaotic system, the common example of chaos theory is that a butterfly flapping its wings can cause a storm half way around the world.

[color:"orange"]And top it all off with an appropriate quote![/color]

That reminds me of a related quote;

"God is dead"
- Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882

"Nietzsche is dead"
- God, 1900