Are We Too Intelligent for Intelligent Design?

THE HISTORY

The war between the church and science has raged on for centuries, and the greatest battle between these two unshakeable institutions has been the one of intelligent design vs. evolution.

There have been countless skirmishes and debates pertaining to these ideas. Numerous theories and doctrines thought up by scientists and clergymen alike. However, none can be proven and none can be disproven.

For example, the Big Bang theory. The Big Bang theory suggests that the universe was created by a spontaneous reaction that resulted in an explosion of matter. However, skeptics can ponder how such a reaction occurred as well as where those reactants even came from in the first place. Were they just there? But isn't it suggested also that God was just there?

On the other side of the argument, creationists can argue that something created everything in the earth the way it was. However, others use scientific, archeological, and historical evidence to provide a contradiction of sorts.

THE ARGUMENT

As a person of the faith, I believe that intelligent design is the doctrine behind the creation of this universe. Science proves a lot, but it cannot disprove the existence of a supernatural being who created the universe ie. God.

Now evolution is what some call fact while others call theory. I myself believe that evolution is true to a certain extent. While I believe that natural selection and the tiny possibility of a positive mutation (0.1%) can alter a species of animal, I believe that the idea that all life on earth originated from a common ancestor is absolutely ridiculous. Scientific evidence can even be used to support my claim.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics states:
Every energy transfer or transformation increases the entropy of the universe.

Entropy is another word for chaos or disorder, so the Second Law of Thermodynamics is saying that the universe is crumbling onto itself. As stated before, 0.1% of mutations have a beneficial effect on the mutant, meaning that 99.9% of mutations have a negative effect. Does this not show that the world is in a monumentally greater state of decline than ascent? We can see that this is true in daily life as well. The world is being polluted and destroyed. Global Warming is plaguing the planet as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere. So how, I wonder, can one organism evolve and grow more complex when "Every energy transfer or transformation increases the entropy of the universe"? This is one among many arguments made by creationists against evolution.

So the question is, "Are we too intelligent for intelligent design?
I don't think so.