Evolution is a scientific fact. Virtually every culture that attained high levels of consciousness will attest to the fact that consciousness and biological life have evolved over time. Yogis and psychedelic explorers have long reported “DNA consciousness” and the ability to float through time and see our evolutionary past. Tim Leary called this activating the 7th (neurogenetic) circuit. DNA itself was discovered by Francis Crick with the aid of chemical induction into high levels of consciousness. Whether you choose to look at evolution from a scientific rational perspective or a spiritual-consciousness perspective, it is empirically true.
That being said, intelligent design is worth discussing because it has merits, especially in the analysis of futurology. As people increasingly see that man can engineer and create life in an environment of accelerating change, they make an imaginative jump that perhaps we were engineered and created rather than the product of millions of years evolution. Intelligent design plays off of this imaginative jump, masking religion under the guise of pseudo-science, as religion is increasingly pressured to compete with scientific material rationalism. However, to simply say that there is an intelligent designer is misleading. What did the intelligent designer design? And who designed the designer?
The intelligent designer could have either designed:
The Universe
DNA Lifeforms
Humans
Unless you buy into new age science fiction or old age biblical fiction, it is unlikely that humans were designed alone. Scientific evidence demonstrates that we are the product of the evolution of DNA life forms.
The Universe
DNA Lifeforms
Humans
If something created The Universe itself, then it is no different than creating consciousness. The universe as we know it exists and is important because we are conscious of it. If we were not capable of becoming conscious of the universe, it would not exist in our subjective reality nor in any rational definition of our objective reality. If we consider the Intelligent Designer as an individual entity, it begs the question: who created the intelligent designer? Surely an individual entity that acts as a conscious creator must exist within consciousness rather than outside as a creator of consciousness – therefore an intelligent designer is not capable of creating the universe/consciousness.
The Universe
DNA Lifeforms
Humans
This leaves us with DNA lifeforms. An intelligent designer could however have created DNA life. Instead of random protein synthesis, DNA could have been engineered by another intelligence. This designer of course is not god – it would be an alien or interdimensional entity. Its possible DNA was seeded on this planet and Francis Crick, discoverer of DNA and explorer of consciousness, posited this theory. Ultimately though, we don’t know this is as fact and we can trust neither simple intuition nor complex transmissions from hyper dimensional channels.
Intelligent design is ultimately impossible to prove unless the designer decides to show himself or herself and present evidence. Thus intelligent design rests neither on spirituality nor science. However, it is popular today because it panders at once to science and religion, merging reality with delusion, and offers a pseudo scientific rational for superficial spirituality.
Intelligent Design theory is important for another reason entirely. It is a sign of the times, and suggests a subconscious realization within man that we have indeed become the traditional Abrahamic God. This realization opens up the pandora’s box of what-ifs that constitute a valid ID theory: what if some other intelligence designed life? ID theory is a wake up call that we need to establish new gods and a new teleology. It is ultimately a feeble attempt to resolve a dying god with modern day science through a twist of science fiction. The only designer that we know of is the human species and it is time to accept the power we have vested in ourselves: the power to intelligently design our future.
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Thanks for the tip Jacob. I have updated the site and I hope you choose to return now that its easier on the eyes.
I think you are trying to cover a topic that is way too complex for such a short analysis. There are so many assumptions made to narrow your discourse that I hardly see this as honest logic, but rather an article with an agenda.
1. While natural selection and mild DNA mutation has been proven (witnessed), there is still plenty of discussion in the scientific community about evolution, specifically the Darwinian model. You take the entire debate and minimize it to “Evolution is a scientific fact”.
2. In the religious community it is standard argument to say the “God” who created the universe exists outside of it. God, at least in the Abrahamic religions, exists in a non-physical state, and thus is a being completely separate from physical limitation. Not surprisingly, you ignored this completely. The thing is, I doubt you didn’t know of this argument, I think you just chose not to address it, again, so that your article could make sense.
3. “suggests a subconscious realization within man that we have indeed become the traditional Abrahamic God”
– What does this even mean? How did your argument up to this point warrant this claim even in the slightest? Your “ID” arguments have either pointed to the natural world or alien seeding, yet humans are the gods?
and so, I don’t think any of this is legitimate.