intelligent questions

on Wednesday i went to the movie theater to see "Expelled: no intelligence allowed" the new documentary starring Ben Stein. the film is about the conflict between stern Darwinist scientists and scientists who support the idea of intelligent design. what i found refreshing that the film wasn't really about who was wrong or right, there was a little of that, but not much. the meat of the film had to do with the idea that Darwinist science was not allowing for ID to be considered in the academic field. It had to do with the freedom, in science, to question theories and grow in knowledge from those questions.

i think it was a good film, sure it kind of focused a little too much on Ben Stein (i think he was trying to make his "inconvenient truth") but there were still good points made. mostly that scientific authority needs to be tested and questioned, that is how we arrive at scientific fact. Darwinism is not being questioned so much, and is well entrenched in the academic realm as the way we came to be. But it does not account for everything. in the theory, human beings developed from simple single cell organisms, which is all well and good, but it cannot account for how the first single cell organism came to exist. there are weak spots in ID as well. since it is a theory that places an unknown source of intelligence at its begining it cannot really be scientifically tested. so if there are weak spots, there needs to be more study. but i am not sure any amount of studying is going to bring about a definite answer. this is where faith comes in.

some have faith in science, others faith in God, and so on. i choose to have faith in God, but that does not mean i cannot be interested in science or consider the facts of science in the creation of the world. in "the Language of God", which is a book i have been reading, the author discusses evolution and what it could mean to believers. it does not have to be exclusive from our creation. it is not so far fetched to believe that God was the major instrument in evolution, that He ingrained natural selection into the natural law that we may become what we are today. to really think about God being ultimate creator means that he created all of the natural laws, and if natural selection and evolution are natural laws then they were created by and are controlled by God. in this way science can be seen as a way to come closer to God's majesty, not a way to distance ourselves from Him.

i would have to say that i am not a Young Earth Creationist. i do not believe that Genisis is a literal telling of the creation of the planet, and i do not believe that the world is only 10,000 years old. i am a creationist in that i believe God created this amazing planet with all of its spectacular species and natural laws. but i think the question of how he did it is always going to be an unknown, until we die. and i will look forward to finding that out.

but until then science has a place in discovery and should continue to question. especially within itself.