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No Need for "God hypothesis"

Occam's Razor tells us that we should always prefer simpler explanations.  Natural selection is simpler explanation than devine creation, since it only involves things we can already observe. Thus we should always  prefer to explain biological design by natural selection rather than divine creation.

It indeed does destroy the most powerful arguments of God. The famous reply of French Mathematician Pierre Simon de Laplace (1749-1827) to Napoleon  is now truer than ever :

Darwin's impersonal theory of evolution by natural selection thus rules out any proper appeal to the God-hypothesis. If there is a watchmaker at all, it is not divine intelligence but blind natural selection that has put the parts of nature so wonderfully together over the course of billions of years of trial and error. The aimless forces of evolution are sufficient to explain all the marvels of life and mind.

Creationism or newly termed "Intelligent Design" is not science, they can not be taught in science classes. It is a blind belief, you can not support this belief from any scientific point of view. As famous biologist/Evolutionist of our time Douglas J. Futuyma says in his book ' Evolution' ,

"Scientists can test and falsify some specific creationist claims, such as the occurrence of a worldwide flood or the claim that the earth and all organisms are less than 10,000 years old, but scientists can not test the hypothesis that God exist, or He created anything, because we do not know what consistent patterns these hypothesis might predict.......The fundamental claim of creationism - that biological diversity is the result of supernatural powers - is not testable. This is equally true of 'intelligent design' theory, it can not be evaluated by the methods of science."

The pictures and some portions of the article have been mainly taken from the book, 'Introducing Evolution', written by Dylan Evans & Howard Selina; Totem Books (USA) & Icon Books (UK), 2005.  

 

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