Intelligent Design

“In the beginning” the declaration that announces the start of creation we find the avowal that “God created the heavens [plural] and the earth” (Genesis 1:1, Holman Christian Study Bible). Therefore, as I need not belabor the obviousness of beginning, I will offer this as a point of agreement. This essay will promote the theory of Creation with an Intelligent Design as an explanation of how it all began.
The Cause for Intelligent Design The Bible decrees that God was the intelligence that brought all that is into existence. This idea is reflected in church history as seen the writings of the “Fourth Lateran Council (1215)”, which surmised that creation by God was, “ex nihlo (i.e. ‘from nothing’)” (Bird, 2013, p. 158). This God, as
Byrne took issue with Cardinal Christoph Schönborn’s argument for intelligent design suggesting that a neo-Darwinian theory of evolution was counter to church doctrines (2006). I too have problems with the totality of Byrne’s view, yet some points are worth mentioning. At the heart of the conflict is the consideration of design verses randomness. One concedes no matter how or who creation came to be there is form and function and thus design. Moreover, Byrne cites William Paley, who wrote, “there cannot be design without a designer” (p. 655). The article continues and debates whether evolution, randomness or divine purpose caused creation on earth to advance and the conundrum that emerges in this treatise is not necessarily the who, but why is most important. This means that while the identity of creation’s designer can neither be proven or discredited, the remaining concern is why did things not remain static; what caused them to grow, to change, to evolve – why would to be selective or opportunistic development in creation. Why did it happen? Randomness cannot support the conclusions (p. 661). This awareness was an ah-ha moment because it lends further support to creation designed by an intelligence, with a