If 'Intelligent Design' is true, does that mean that God has a very low IQ?
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On the contrary, it is our IQ that could not understand how intelligent His design is.  For that, He looks stupid to us.
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Scared and gullible? No, they really are more stupid than the average person. There have been many studies aimed at establishing a link between 'religiosity' and intelligence and almost all of them find that the smarter a person is the less religious he is. The results are summarised in this article with links to the data used.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence\n\nAs further evidence, note especially the christian response in the article, which can be summarised "Yes we are idiots, but that is part of gods plan."
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Ah yes.... the uncaused causer...\n\nBy raising the question of the need for a designer for objects with irreducible complexity, intelligent design also raises the question, "what designed the designer?" Richard Dawkins has argued that "If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God (or the intelligent designer) is simply immune to the normal demands of scientific explanation," since such an answer would be unscientific. With religious creationism, the question "what created God?" can be answered with theological arguments, but in intelligent design, the chain of designers can be followed back indefinitely in an infinite regression, leaving the question of the creation of the first designer dangling. As a result, intelligent design does not explain how the complexity happened in the first place; it just moves it.\n\nElliott Sober says that by intelligent design's own arguments, a designer capable of creating irreducible complexity must also be irreducibly complex: "Any mind in nature that designs and builds an irreducibly complex system is itself irreducibly complex" Sober says that this an argument that intelligent design proponents still need to respond to.\n\nIf intelligent design proponents invoke an uncaused causer or deity to resolve this problem, they contradict a fundamental assumption of intelligent design that design requires a designer.
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I don't think worshiping a male god without the female aspect makes your IQ lower.  But these folks can be off-balance, and they're usually not in tune with the things going on around them.
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Creationism means that "Zap!" there we (and all other living things) were... created as is in the blink of any eye (or a few days).  This is Biblical mythology.  Although interesting, it has been shown with much evidence to be incorrect.\n\nIntelligent design means that God either set in motion the changes that man and nature would undergo from the very begining... or that he invisibly changed nature over many thousands of millions of years and still continues to do so today... very slowly!  So that he set things up for evolution to occur and still controls it.\n\nHowever this "theory" cannot be tested.  We cannot, by the definition of God, experiment on God to prove what God has or has not done.  Many people BELIEVE that because nature is so complex, that it must have had an intelligent creator and therefore the intelligent creator exists.  But this does not prove the assumption that "If nature is complex, then it must have had an intelligent creator".  That statement is where the faith lies.\n\nEvolution shows that beings have changed over the millions of years by natural selection.  It does not say that God did or did not have a hand in it.  It is merely fact.\n\nSome people think that evolution is blasphemous because it contradicts the Old Testament.  But many things that are done now-a-days by most modern Christians contradict the Old Testament. (Dietary habits, clothing, etc.)  Even intelligent design contradicts the old testament.\n\nThe statement "The sky is blue." (on a clear day!) is no more or less true if you think it's blue because (1) God made it blue, or (2) because God set up the atmospheric conditions to make the sky blue, or (3) it is blue only because of atmospheric conditions and not because of God.\n\n"Evolution happend" is just a fact.  If you think it happened because of God or not is really a matter of faith.\n\nAnd being part of faith, should be kept out of government.  Much of the US constitution is based on keeping religion and goverment separate.  Evolution is fact and should be taught.  If you think it occured because of God, that is great, but it is not science.  Faith has done some wonderful things.  So has science.  But to contaminate faith with science is like trying to experiment on God.  And to enter faith into science completely destroys the objectivity of science.\n\nBoth creationism and intelligent design are based on faith and should not be taught in public schools.\n\n\nP.S.  To say that evolution cannot be proven is absurd.  There is countless evidence in favor of it.  Just as the theory of gravity.  You will have to read up on natural selection.
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Nope.  Faulty logic.  God being inside doesn't make God in control.
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Belief often makes people ignorant. In fact, one of the many contradictions in the Bible say that it's better not to be intelligent, because knowledge corrupts(or something like that). But in other passages, it says that God given intelligence should be used for good(or something like that). This is why they say ignorance is bliss I guess, cuz if all were stupid, then no one will be the wiser. Christians really do believe what they believe and so they will often be tested. It sounds stupid to others that don't see their point of views exactly. This is why George W Bush is still president, and why ppl still root for the republican party even though they see it and the president falling out of grace.
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Intelligent design embodies a theology that features a god who is malicious toward people.  \n\n1.  When you look below the surface, the world is filled with evidence that leads open minded people to conclude that evolution has occurred.  This evidence comes from the fields of paleontology, paleogeography, biogeography, molecular biology, genetics, embryology, and probably lots of others.  The god of intelligent design would have had to rig this evidence in favor of misleading us.\n\n2.  If the god of intelligent design violates the natural laws he created to create living organisms and to create false evidence, how often does he do this?  For example, maybe two seconds ago, he created the us and the entire universe, including this message up to this point, my memory of having written it, and your memory of having read it thus far.  If god violates natural law, anything is possible.\n\n3.  If the intelligent design god is going to create the world in any whimsical way, then he created all the suffering that we endure when he could have created a world without suffering.  Either he willfuly created our suffering, or he is an inept creator.\n\n4.  If the existence of complex organisms proves the existence of an intelligent designer, then the existence of the intelligent designer proves the existence of a more intelligent designer who created him.  ...and an even more intelligent designer who created the second one.   ...and an even more than more intelligent designer who created the thrid one.  ...and so on, ad infinitum.  Which one should be worshiped?  What will happen to our souls if we worship the wrong one?\n\n5.  I'm sure that people better versed in philosophy and theology could add many more reasons to believe that the god of intelligent design is malicious.
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I believe that, no, God did not "plan" it this way.  But, I think that God knew that humans were going to be weak.  Yes, I know that that sounds like a contradiction, but, honestly that is the best that I could come up with.  I cannot speak for God, but I know that He knows best.
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Intelligent is a subjective word. If you measure it by human terms and use communication, rational thought, and abstract reasoning as a guideline, I would say no. However, if it is strictly based on environmental acumen in terms of adaptation to the variations of environment I would say yes.
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Take a look at the amazing universe all around you - The galaxies, stars and planets... the beauty of mountains and trees and everything that lives, grows and breathes on the Earth.  No sane person believes that the great complexity of the natural universe in general and living organisms in particular could just exist fully formed with no cause and no origin.\n\nSo, how can any sane person possibly believe that all this amazing complexity is sourced in an intelligent designer who just exists fully formed with no cause and no origin?  That would be completely absurd.  The only possible explanation is that the universe had a natural origin, and that the order and complexity we observe in the universe has arisen over billions of years from simplicity and chaos by the effect of unthinking, undirected natural processes.  Science, in the form of cosmology and biology, shows us that this is indeed the case.\n\nThe idea of a creator god has no explanatory value - It is intellectual laziness, a non-answer, not a solution to the question of existence but a way of avoiding the question.  It should and will be consigned to history along with all our other naive superstitious beliefs.
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Whether or not there is a God I can't believe He spends all\nHis time basking in the worship of His followers,punishing\nthe sinful,and dreaming up natural disasters to test or\npunish Humanity. A Creator of the Universe might not even\nbe aware of our existence. If He was,we could seem like nothing more than microscopic beings,of no real interest.
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No.\n\nSchneb is being purposefully deceiving by quoting Darwin out of context.  Isn't that on a par with lying?\n\nEbertis should read a book called "Why People Believe Weird Things," by Michael Shermer.  In it, he gives very good explanations of how intelligent people can deceive themselves into believing something very wrong.  He should also know that Behe has been thoroughly debunked and for facts and evidence he should take a look at talkorigins.org.\n\nFor those of you who defend "intelligent design," maybe you should take a look at this question:\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsLJbgNxwECve8d_AOzB.wfsy6IX?qid=1006042026788\n\nSecretsauce got it right away.
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Nope.  But if we could fully understand/explain God He wouldn't be much of a God.\n\nIsaiah 55:8 For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD. \n\nIsaiah 55:9  For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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The god is vastly less likely to occur seeing as it is immensely more complex and the chances of ANYTHING happening without cause are like 0:infinity.  It's like saying that life just spurted out of the ground without the amino acids or basic cell structure forming first, but more illogical.
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I am not sure I read a question there, but if you want to know 'How smart God is?" I think a good answer would be smarter than you.