Ideal Absolutes

Intelligent Design Rules Out God’s Sovereignty Over Chance

You might want to sit down for this one. I’m not even sure how my warped mind bounced around such a diverse subject. Let’s start by staying I consider myself to be a fiscal conservative – to a point. To deny one department toilet tissue only to turn around and purchase 20 inch flat screen monitors for yours is not fiscal conservatism; that is flat out selfish. Perhaps bordering, dare I say, wasteful spending.

When I came aross an opinion piece in the WSJ by Piyush Jindal my heart warmed. The puppy dog warm fuzzy feeling continued up to the point I realized he’s a proponent of teaching Intelligent Design with a straight face. Geez, another hopeful super star kicking it old school with the flat earthers of Texas.

Practitioners of the “intelligent design” brand of creationism, much like Molière’s Physician in Spite of Himself, not only belie the true nature of their avocation and motives, but also play fast and loose with a commonly held precept.  They tacitly negate the clear and completely traditional parameters that illuminate the position of chance occurrence in our universe.

Article linkage is forth coming after a quick run down of what many consider an insult to God. Break out the home edition pricing gun and label this Biblical and intellectual heresy. Keeping 16:33 in mind where the toss of a coin or rolling of the dice, pick your game of ‘chance’, which in thumper thinking is said to ultimately rely on Gods providence. Still with me? Good ’cause we’re flipping the wedge in favor of true intelligence and fixin to hand them their asses.

If those crafty creationialist doubt evolution possible due the overwhelming impossibility that random events could spiral into our thumbs placing atop the food chain… breath, are they not themselves claiming God inferior – incapable of fulfilling what the very Bible they claim to follow states within Gods power. They dismiss evolution because random events aren’t powerful enough to create man? To say God sat down, as it were, to specificly design all things. He could not have possibly set these events in motion, through science based equations? This isn’t within his control? Are they suggesting we ignore Proverb 16:33 or that it could not possibly account for the evolution of all things on earth?

I hate to get all Maddow up in this mother fucker, but someone needs to talk me down if you have the God given balls to do so.

ref: WSJ piece by Bobby Jindal
ref: Salon piece by David White