Creation

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In the strictest interpretation of the core doctrine of many religions, there is apparently no room for the predominant scientific view, often referred to as the Theory of Evolution or Darwinism, that the life presently on Earth evolved over hundreds of millions of years without intervention by a conscious entity or entities.

Reference

• Faith-based concepts:
  • Wikipedia:Creationism
  • Wikipedia:Intelligent design
• Science-based concepts:
  • Wikipedia:Darwinism
  • Wikipedia:Evolution
  • Wikipedia:Natural selection

Links

• Creation Digest: promotes the "intelligent design" theory, although "not affiliated with, nor sponsored or controlled by any religious organization or non-profit association"
• Entries from the Access Research Network Intelligent Design FAQ:
  • What is Intelligent Design?: defines but does not give details
  • How Can You Tell if Something is Designed?: presents an argument based on the presumption that non-randomness implies intelligence (need to write a bit about why this is wrong --Woozle 20:45, 24 Dec 2005 (CST))
  • Further entries in the FAQ either start out by asserting the conclusion ("The more we learn about living organisms, the more they look like products of design..." [1]) and reassert the "order can only come from intelligence" argument ([2]) and that's all the time I've had to read through the FAQ, which may ultimately include everything I need to know about ID but certainly is not concise.

Events

• Utah bill withdrawn: "...assured him that Utah public school curriculum does not teach that man descended from apes."

Satire

• Doonesbury, 2005-12-18
• The Flying Spaghetti Monster