Evolution Vs Intelligent Design Essay

Evolution and Intelligent Design Evolution is known as a change in inherited genes from one generation to the next. Intelligent design is the belief that there is an intelligent mind at work behind life. These two arguments for the origin of life have been locked in a battle for the past several decades. Evolution is currently the mainstream idea that is being taught in curriculums across the globe. It is widely accepted by the scientific community and is supported by the scientific method. Hypothesis can be formed, and the theory tested. Intelligent Design is the main counterpart for the theory of evolution. The organization that pushes this idea is the Discovery Institute. Its chief statement is that many things in the universe such
Intelligent design says that life must have been created, and not necessarily evolved. Of course there are adaptations to an environment, but not radical jumps from species to species. Intelligent design would then seem to state that we need God, but God can not be a response to a need or otherwise he would not exist. Therefore it seems that intelligent design is actually making God an engineer of sorts, rather than the loving God. This view seems to border along the Newtonian God, or a God who made the earth like a watch, and just lets it tick away. Catholics believe that God possesses ultimate freedom. Would it be unsound to think that God would create a world in which this freedom could continuously be reflected? Evolution is clearly the reflection. In evolution, life has the freedom to expand itself in more and more complex ways, and sometimes in simpler ways, to become a life form fit for its environment. Does this view that life has the freedom to become what it will on its own really differ from what Catholics believe? If God created man in his image and likeness, and if God is ultimate freedom, therefore can not man be made through the free and unhindered advancements of