Intelligent Design vs. Evolution

Intelligent Design is the idea that states the universe and the living things within it are best explained an intelligent cause or intelligent designer, commonly referred to as God.

Michael Behe, a biochemist, quoted that the human body is "a single system which is composed of several well-matched interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning". Basically, he is saying that each part is dependent on the rest of the parts, and that even if one small piece were to break down, the entire system would collapse.

Through this argument of irreducible complexity, Behe argues that certain biological systems (such as human bodies) are far too complex to have evolved from simple predecessors through repeated small chances and natural selection. Such small chances could not have possibly produced such complex systems that require the mutual dependency on every part.

The problem with Intelligent Design is that it lacks a lot of scientific proofs, as such an idea of an intelligent creator requires blind faith and just blunt acceptance of the idea. Given that God were real, and that he can create something out of nothing, the argument would be valid. However, since we can't prove God is real and the Given in of itself is stated as true (which was not proven to be true), there is a bridge-less gap that requires one to "jump" to the conclusion that the Given just is.

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Evolution is the idea in the change of inherited traits that are passed down from generation to the next.

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is a key aspect of the evolutionary theory that humans are descended from apes, which in turn evolved from simpler species, from simpler species, to simpler species. It is theorized that animals started out as a single cell that asexually reproduced, and kept duplicating until it became an entire organism, which in turn kept evolving to different species. The problem with that theory, however,lies in the question of where and how the single cell came to be. If evolution STARTED with a single cell, then what started the single cell? How did it get there? Why did it get there?