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Okay, I need your brilliant brains!! My biology class is making a debate on intelligent design vs. natural selection.

what are the best arguments for either side? please and thank you! :D

EDIT: okay, new question :D which of the two do you believe in, and why?
and if neither, why is that?

Last edited by Specter on 22 Apr 2008, 2:52 pm, edited 1 time in total.

so far we've come up with a lot to support intelligent design, and few things to support evolution (I think it would be wise to know both sides' possible arguments). For intelligent design, our big power hitter is the "irreducible complexity" of life.

does anyone know of any other good arguments?

SOS (Soul or Science) topic

I am not an expert, but in my years of life I have studied both sides and now favour natural selection. The reasons:

No proof of a designer
No proof the designer is intelligent
No proof the world and universe is only 6000 years old
Reliance on one source for all creation "proof" (Bible)

The Bible is a statement of faith, and is a one-size fits all statement. The world is much too diverse for a one-book answer to everything. Creation arguments are circular and lack rigorous research and use of logic. One-stop shopping for answers to such complex questions about our universe does a disservice to the nature of our world. Science is science and religion (faith, belief) is religion. The twain will never meet, like two parallel lines. They are two aspects of our world, and co-exist but they will never fuse, meet or be reconciled. (The inverse is also correct: If I am troubled, I do not read "The Origin of Species" to feel better.)

ooo, that is an interesting argument; thank you for your contribution :D

any others?