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I think what many people misunderstand is that true science makes no attempt to either confirm or deny the existence of an intelligent designer, nor should it.
Look up “scientific method” in the dictionary. Science is about the study of natural phenomena, not the supernatural. Science passes no judgment about a supernatural being one way or another, but some people take that lack of acknowledgment as a threat to their faith and so they have to try to push to insert their belief in the almighty into something in which it does not belong.
Galileo was imprisoned by the Catholic Church for publishing a book that put forth the idea of a heliocentric solar system, because the church thought the idea that the earth was not at the center would cause people to lose their belief in a deity. Did it?
Science says that the sun is at the center of the solar system because that it what we observe. Perhaps an intelligent designer, though, actually did put the earth at the center of the universe so that it does not move at all, just like the Bible says , and the designer is just fooling scientists and their instruments into believing otherwise. Should that theory be taught as part of an astronomy curriculum?
If a person is actually confident in their faith, I think they should find science to be an affirmation of that faith, not a threat or contradiction of it. I personally find a God who created a perpetual machine of life called evolution and simply set that in motion much more miraculous than a designer who has to keep tinkering with His creations.
Evolution is as much of a scientific fact as the earth going around the sun, and the people who attempt to deny or distort that are as misguided as the jailers of Galileo. If anyone feels that science is a threat to their religion, then maybe they should examine why their faith is so weak and lacking rather than attacking science and those who defend it.
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